[Archived Catalog]
Masters of Science in Education - School Leadership Concentration
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School Leadership Degree Concentration – 36 credits
This concentration is intended for both teachers and administrators, primarily though not exclusively working in public education, interested in initiating or enhancing a career in educational administration. Much of the program is applicable to use in community colleges as well. Its two main purposes are enabling participants to master the knowledge and techniques necessary for educational management, and to review and evaluate best practices from both the public and private sectors in order to select among the managerial options available to address their various courses of action.
Both the degree concentration and the five-course certificate are designed to satisfy the six area standards of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). The certificate provides the general knowledge areas most states require for early-career school leaders, the degree concentration for those areas required of principals and superintendents.
The general approaches used in pursuing these purposes are similar to those in the School Educator concentration. First, participants investigate the scholarly research on educational administration, and evaluate it in terms of their previous experience and expectations of the future; second, they review the debates over past and current issues such as motivating and developing professional employees, management styles and a unionized environment, financial and legal options and constraints, and social and political influences on future trends.
The concept of “civil education” underlies the administrative management concentration as well, in that both managers and employees are seen as unique individuals with the capacity for lifelong learning and growth, whose interaction, while regulated by legal and financial requirements, can be inspired by empathy and reason. Students in the M.S.Ed School Leadership concentration will:
- be aware of different supervisory management methods, and be able to use goal-setting, feedback, reinforcement and delegation to enhance both satisfaction and efficiency;
- have appropriate knowledge of the legal and financial requirements and options of various administrative positions, and the ethical issues potentially involved with them;
- appreciate the advantages and drawbacks of different leadership styles, and the conditions which are favorable or unfavorable to them;
- be familiar with organizational planning and development models, and how individuals’ development goals may be matched with the organization’s;
- be able to see the educational organization as a subsystem of larger social and political systems, and be adept at recognizing the requirements for productive relationships.
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