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Course Listings
Summer 2008: ADMN 601 Fundamentals of Educational Administration (includes a 1 credit prepracticum): Introduces participants to basic concepts and techniques in educational leadership and administration. Topics will include theories of administration and a survey of the many important areas of responsibility and current problems that the modern school administrator faces. Major emphasis will be given to issues of finance, budgeting and plant management in the education setting. Students will also become familiar with administrative uses and implications of computer hardware and software. 4 credits. ADMN 612 Supervision and Evaluation of Educational Personnel (includes a 1 credit prepracticum): Focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills required for effective supervision and evaluation of teachers and educational support staff. Major emphasis is on supervision of teachers through individual goal setting and classroom observations. Essential skills for developing/selecting valid and reliable observation instruments, attitudes about staff involvement in the evaluation process, and principles for motivating improved performance are stressed. 4 credits. ADMN 614 Evaluating Curriculum Programs (includes a 1 credit prepracticum): Participants examine various concepts and models for evaluating educational programs. An inquiry is made into the historical roots of evaluation in education and into the implications that different value orientations have for the role of evaluation. The primary objective is to analyze the purpose and use of alternative evaluation models for judging how well curriculum objectives are being accomplished at classroom, school, and district levels. Emphasis is on acquiring skills for developing defensible evaluation designs and for selecting ad validating instruments to assess the effectiveness of curriculum programs. 4 credits. Summer 2009: ADMN 603 Human Relations and Staff Development (includes a 1 credit prepracticum): Focuses on communication and problem-solving skills in working with students, teachers parents, and members of the school community. Participants explore a conceptual framework for human relationships and increase skills of effective counseling, motivating subordinate behavior, modifying personal behavior, and resolving conflicts. This course also instructs the school administrator in how to implement in-service programs in the education setting as a means of improving the professional skills of staff. 4 credits. ADMN 607 Leading Schools in Context (includes a 1 credit prepracticum): Examines current theory and practice as they relate to managing and leading complex organizations. Content focuses on important concepts and principles of organization theory, governance of schools and legal issues affecting the organization and administration of public schools. Legal topics include: constitutional issues, landmark court decisions in education law, liability, contracts and tenure, collective bargaining, special education and recent legislation affecting education. 4 credits. ADMN 701 Ethics for Administrators (includes a 1 credit prepracticum): Studies the place of values in education. Attention is given to both ethical theory and its socio-cultural roots and to the application of ethics to decision-making in actual educational goals and practices that are currently in use. It is intended to stimulate reflective examination of the values underlying American culture and its educational institutions. 4 credits.
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