Educational Leadership

This seminar is designed to provide an opportunity for doctoral students to make a successful transition into the role of doctorally prepared educational leaders. This seminar focuses on gaining an understanding of the role of a scholar and leader in one’s professional field, the community, and society in general.

This experiential graduate level course builds on various elements of doctoral education. This course offers the student an opportunity to explore, in depth, an educational or educational leadership topic of interest. Literature on the selected topic is critically analyzed and incorporated into a concept analysis paper.

This course focuses on the role of the educator, trainer, and/or facilitator in using evidence-based educational concepts to actively engage learners in educational settings. The student will create an individualized learning contract that focuses on areas of the learning experience relevant to their current professional role and will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate the acquisition of new knowledge and skills that can be applied to teaching or training, as well as mastery of the learning objectives below. Both pedagogical and andragogical principles will be applied.

This graduate level course requires the student to conduct a scholarly research literature review specific to a selected aspect of education in a variety of settings (P-12 education, higher education, continuing education, professional development or patient education). Each student will conduct a thorough literature review with depth and breadth. There is the potential that the readings can be useful in defining and designing the literature review for the dissertation. Topics will be selected in conjunction with the graduate faculty.

This graduate level course focuses on the exploration of evidence-based teaching and learning practices for adult learners related to the professional’s field. Through observation and analysis of selected teaching and learning environments, learners will gain an awareness of what makes teaching and learning effective in one’s professional practice. Reflection of these experiences along with scholarly research will be completed to explain knowledge and skills gained through observations. 

This course prepares the student to identify the dissertation topic, establish the research question(s) and complete the literature review for the dissertation requirement related to P-12 education, higher education, continuing education, professional development or patient education.