Course Description
Explores PreK-12 school-level teacher leadership as a lever for change to build the individual and collective capacity of teachers. Examined are the roles, responsibilities, functions, and challenges of teacher leaders in and out of the classroom as well as teacher voice, agency, and change.
Athena Title
Teacher Leader and Capacity
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDAP 8025
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
EDAP 7020 or EDAP 7020E or EDAP 8150 or EDAP 8150E
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, students will: 1. Articulate keys ideas about (a) teacher leadership as a leverage for change, and (b) the barriers teacher leaders face as they enact the work of teacher leadership. 2. Identify formal and informal roles that teacher leaders assume in their schools, classrooms, school systems, state levels, and beyond. 3. Explain how teacher leadership can leverage school reform, most especially at the school level to build individual and collective capacity. 4. Analyze cultural and organizational factors that influence the development of teacher leadership.
Topical Outline
* Contextual and Historical Understandings of Teacher Leadership * School Culture and Climate * Roles, Responsibilities, and Functions of Teacher Leaders * Leading In and Out of the Classroom * Teacher Voice, Agency, and Leadership * Empowerment * Collective Responsibility and Action * Professional Engagement and Collaboration * Innovation and Change Theories * Leveraging Individual and Collective Change in a Context * Tensions, Barriers, and Challenges of Teacher Leadership * Trust, Ethics of Care, and Sense of Belonging
Syllabus
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