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Understanding child development, child management, and developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) for teaching young children (ages 3 to 8), will be the foundation for building leadership skills for early childhood administrators. Based on the foundation of understanding the child, there will be an emphasis on curriculum leadership, inclusion, licensure rules and regulations, parents and school relations, professional ethics, and personnel and staff development. Other administrative tasks and skills will be addressed as well as organizational planning and strategies for administering an early childhood program.
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Course is alsooffered online.
Emphasis is placed on the application of the administering process as well as research on school effectiveness to the elementary and middle school setting. Focus will include administering the day-to- day operations and efforts designed to improve the total organization. Implementing operational plans, managing financial resources, and applying decentralized management processes and procedures will receive major attention.
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Course is also offered online.
The major objective of this course is to help students identify successful models of secondary school administration. This goal requires that students, through research, analysis, synthesis and decision making, arrive at a hypothetical model of an effective secondary school administrator. Secondly, the course develops an understanding of the principles involved in being a successful secondary administrator. Lastly, the course is meant to provide the student with sufficient insight to initially administer the day-to-day operation of a secondary school.
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Course is also offered online.
The purpose of this course is to evaluate the primary steps and procedures in an effective staff personnel program, namely understanding the personnel function (planning, allocating, coordinating, influencing, and appraising), purposes of the personnel function, determining personnel needs, establishing a compensation structure, recruiting, selecting, inducting and in-servicing. Secondly, the course will identify the principles of a good school public relations program, establishing a master public relations plan, and working successfully with the media, parents, and public groups.
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Course is also offered online.
This course instructs students on public education's legal foundations, including constitutional, statutory, board policy, and case law within which a school must function. School administrative practices related to federal regulations and rulings with consideration given to state and local matters when applicable are the course's focus. Major topics include school governance, staff employment, teachers' and students' rights, tort liability, collective bargaining, student attendance and records, and disabled student rights. As aspiring school principals, students demonstrate their ability to apply the federal, state and local legal principles that govern practices and operations in PK-12 schools by analyzing selected case studies and scenarios.
This course informs students on various school revenue sources, including local, state and federal funding systems. As well, the course explains the federal and state government's sources of income. In the course students review financial reports, such as appropriation measures, five-year forecasts, audits, and budgets. Students examine purchasing practices and school expenditures, including risk management programs, construction projects, and collective bargaining along with competitive bidding mandates. The course includes an experimental learning assignment in which students develop a grant.
This course extends experiences gained through the prerequisite course and EDU 560 Clinical Field Experience I and provides opportunities for the student to experience supervisory/administrative responsibilities in a supervised, planned, and personalized program. The course is designed to have the student execute 12 administrative proficiencies dealing with the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC Standards). The proficiencies are designed for limited and sustained participation. The student will work with a practicing administrator who will guide, direct, and evaluate the student's attainment of the advanced proficiencies selected for the experiences. A graduate education faculty member will be assigned to the student to supervise the total experience and arrange for individual and two group meetings throughout the semester. The student will complete a minimum of 150 hours of fieldwork through the completion of EDU 621.
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Course is also offered online.