ED 202 Foundations of Educational Leadership Fall 2006
Instructor: Evan Erdberg Office: LR 327 Office Hours: Tuesday 12pm-3pm Wednesdays 2:30am-4:30pm Phone: 212-809-2977 E-mail: eerdberg@kdsi.org
Historical, philosophical and sociological dimensions of educational leadership, including legal and financial challenges associated with the institution of education.
3 Credit Hours
This course presents an overview of key elements of educational leadership and is intended to produce informed educators in real-world classrooms. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the foundations of education. This course will help students connect theory and research to successful teaching practices. From the outset, the student will connect their study to real-life classrooms and will experience various education settings that will model different classroom management techniques.
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| Topics | Assignments | Readings | |
| Week 1 8/29 & 8/31 | Introduction to course Field Experience forms & Home work procedures | “Why I’m Interested in teaching? essay Create Blog journal & posting | Chap 1: Clifton Taulbert KDS: “Homework Practices and Policies that Work,” Rick Wormeli |
| Week 2 9/5 & 9/7 | Professionalism & Ethics Examination of Ethical | Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal | Chap 2: Discussion article |
| behavior standards | Discuss Ricks methods | ||
| Week 3 9/12 & 9/14 | Professionalism & Ethics in the classroom Ethics Case Study | Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal How would you reduce | Discussion article |
| Analysis | classroom disruption | KDS: “Strategies to | |
| Reduce Classroom | |||
| Disruption,” Rick Wormeli | |||
| Week 4 9/19 & 9/21 | Governance & Ed Policy NCLB, High Stakes Testing, State Curriculum Standards | Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal | Chap 3, Discussion article |
| Week 5 9/26 & 9/28 | The changing student policy/local control, non-traditional schooling | F30/G20 policy compare/contrast Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal | Chapv4, Discussion article KDS: “Differentiated |
| Assessment and Grading,” Rick Wormeli | |||
| Week 6 10/3 & 10/5 | Learners & Their Needs Today’s learners, learning styles | Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal | Chap 4, Discussion article |
| Week 7 10/10 & 10/12 | Differentiated Learners & Their Needs Diversity in the classroom | Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal | Chap 5 Discussion article |
| KDS: “Differentiation and | |||
| the Issue of Quality,” Carol Ann Tomlinson | |||
| Week 9 10/23 & 10/25 | History & Philosophy of differentiated Ed Overview of Ed History | Discussion board entry Post to Blog journal | Chap 11, Discussion article |