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Teachers who:
- Facilitate communities of learning through organization-wide processes
- Inspire excellence in practice
- Confront barriers in the school's culture and structures
- Translate ideas into sustainable systems of action
- Nurture a culture of success
Our program is designed for the classroom teachers who would like to develop their leadership skills and contribute to their schools and communities without leaving the classroom. The focus of the program is a school-based, two-year action research project designed to have a direct impact on students, teachers, and community.
This Teacher Leadership Certificate Program is a 15 credit, non-degree program designed in cooperation with the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit. The 15 credit hours earned in this program can be applied to the Master's Degree program once a student matriculates and is accepted into the degree program.
Students in the program are nominated by their districts (in either the Carbon Lehigh or Colonial IU) to participate in a Teacher Leaders Cohort over a two-year period.
The Teacher Leader program applies a systems approach to creating change as it develops leadership skills. Participants must follow this sequence and take all courses as a cohort.
COURSES, SCOPE and SEQUENCE
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SUMMER - YEAR ONE (6 credit hours)
EDL 400. Introduction to Organizational Leadership: Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Development of theories of leadership and applications in educational institutions. Behaviors for teacher leaders in organizational settings stressing tools for decision making, evaluation, and conflict resolution.
EdL 420 . Leading and Managing Curriculum in Instructional Programs (3 credits)
Exploration of the theory, research and practice associated with an effective curriculum and instruction program. Topics include program planning, implementation and evaluation, legal issues, contract management, and budgetary considerations. Emphasis on field-based research and data-based decision making in program design and evaluation.
FALL - YEAR ONE (2 credit hours)
EdL 461. Facilitating Organizational Inquiry (2 credits)
Exploration into the use of reflective practice and inquiry for professional development and school improvement. Development of group facilitation skills for collective inquiry. Reflection and inquiry will serve as the foundation for development of an action research project.
SPRING - YEAR ONE (2 credit hours)
EdL 462. Transforming the Learner (2 credits)
Exploration of the integration of social, personal, cognitive, and knowledge-building dimensions to support learning and literacy. Focusing on the metacognitive conversations with self and others essential for developing learning and leadership.
SUMMER - YEAR TWO NO COURSES
FALL - YEAR TWO (3 credit hours)
EdL 463. Designing Systems of Action (3 credits)
Implementation of action research project. Building understanding of how the project impacts and is influenced by school and community systems. Explores the application of learning theory as related to leadership. Continued development of leadership concept and tools.
SPRING - YEAR TWO (2 credit hours)
EdL 464. Sustaining Learning Communities (2 credits)
Completion of action research. Design and facilitation of a symposium of inquiry results. Review the behaviors of leadership that sustain learning in the classroom, school, and community.
ADMISSIONS SELECTION PROCESS
Program participants will have:
The number of teachers admitted into the program from each district is in direct proportion to the district's teacher population.
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