LDR 571 Planning Teacher Leadership

The first of three courses for the planning, execution, and evaluation of a Teacher Leadership Immersion Project, this course provides the opportunity for candidates to identify a teacher leadership problem or challenge facing their own school, district, or other teaching and learning system, and to design a strategy to join with others to address the problem. Candidates investigate relevant literatures from education, as well as business, politics, and other disciplines focused on complex change, as well as parallel issues and approaches taken by other schools and districts, and develop a proposal that will allow them to focus on one of the National Teacher Leader Standards in depth. With instructor approval of their project, they will begin identifying mentors, collaborators, and stakeholders, and begin active work on their projects. Pre-requisite(s): Completion of all Teacher Leadership endorsement coursework. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours