EDU 716 School Business Affairs
This course extends knowledge, dispositions, and school business practices related to public education finance beyond those skills learned in EDU 617. Students examine purchasing practices in depth a well as school expenditures, including risk management programs and construction projects along with competitive bidding mandates. Other school business functions studied include managing personnel, purchasing, accounting, district investing, managing facilities and capital assets, as well as overseeing the district's transportation, food service, security, and technology services. The course includes the following experiential learning assignments in which students complete district fiscal analysis, develop a competitive bid, and create a spending reduction plan.
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Taught using hybrid format including both on campus and online sessions.
This course addresses the leadership role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum. The course focuses on the impacting aspects of curriculum leadership, such as the history of curriculum development; importance of curriculum; the politics of curriculum; roles various parties play in curriculum; the importance to curriculum of the learner; knowledge; and the needs of society. Current issues in curriculum are part of the course, as are practical skills such as curriculum mapping and curriculum alignment. Lastly, the course is intended to motivate students regarding role and potential of their role in curriculum leadership.
Credit Hours 3
Prerequisite(s)s
EDU 511 IS NOT REQUIRED BUT STRONGLY RECOMMENDED AS A PREREQUISITE FOR EDU 512.
This course requires the synthesizing of research on leadership principles as these principles pertain to the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum. Secondly, the course will provide problem-solving opportunities for students to address some of the concerns facing the development and implementation of curriculum with particular reference to current curriculum issues and trends. Lastly, the course is meant to serve as a stimulus to help students integrate and organize knowledge bases in the area of curriculum.
Credit Hours 3
Prerequisite(s)s
This course addresses the leadership role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum. The course focuses on the impacting aspects of curriculum leadership, such as the history of curriculum development; importance of curriculum; the politics of curriculum; roles various parties play in curriculum; the importance to curriculum of the learner; knowledge; and the needs of society. Current issues in curriculum are part of the course, as are practical skills such as curriculum mapping and curriculum alignment. Lastly, the course is intended to motivate students regarding role and potential of their role in curriculum leadership.
Credit Hours 3
Prerequisite(s)s
EDU 511 IS NOT REQUIRED BUT STRONGLY RECOMMENDED AS A PREREQUISITE FOR EDU 512.
This course requires the synthesizing of research on leadership principles as these principles pertain to the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum. Secondly, the course will provide problem-solving opportunities for students to address some of the concerns facing the development and implementation of curriculum with particular reference to current curriculum issues and trends. Lastly, the course is meant to serve as a stimulus to help students integrate and organize knowledge bases in the area of curriculum.
Credit Hours 3
Prerequisite(s)s