EDTL 811 - Teaching Leadership Theory to Practice

In this course, candidates will explore the personal beliefs that guide their practice and expand their development as teacher leaders committed to promoting educational equity. Course readings and assignments will provide both a macro overview of the affordances and constraints of our current system and a micro investigation into how rich learning environments can be structured to meet the needs of historically marginalized students. Candidates will also engage with research-based knowledge about how teachers assume leadership and draw on principles of adult learning theory to sharpen their communication and facilitation skills. As such, presentation techniques will be modeled, practiced, and critiqued.

Course credits: 3