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Program Context

College of Education Mission

The mission of the college of education is to promote inquiry that fosters democratic life and is fundamental to productive activity in the interrelated areas of teaching, research, and service in a multicultural society.

EACS Mission

The mission of the Educational Administration, Curriculum and Supervision (EACS) Program Area is to promote critical inquiry that addresses important issues relating to teaching, learning, and leadership so that service and collaboration among colleagues and the professional communities may be enhanced.

The curriculum presented in this course is under-girded by a dynamic knowledge base that reflects current and recommended practices as examined through basic and applied research. The EACS graduate should be able to transfer theory and research into practice and to analyze practice through theory and research. To this end, theory, research, and practice are viewed as reciprocal and equal in developing and refining program area offerings. The politics of education curriculum is vertically and horizontally articulated, allowing students the opportunity to study both the broader area of leadership and an area of emphasis as they become proficient in understanding, applying, and conducting research - both formally, as scholar leaders, and informally, as informed practitioners through action research. The curriculum provides the conceptual and philosophical bases of continuing education as students develop specified competencies.

The EACS faculty recognize the unique learning needs of our adult students. Accordingly, the faculty encourage learning through the utilization of a variety of instructional approaches (e.g., lecture, discussion, large and small group work, computer and non-computer simulation, site visitations, and interactions with practitioners to properly engage students in learning.  Further, the faculty of EACS recognize that as an outgrowth of its conceptual framework there are knowledge bases accepted by learned societies such as NELP, NPBEA, SRCEA, and UCEA.

Within these accepted-yet-evolving knowledge bases, some competencies and skills may also be applied in regulated field experiences, such as internships and practicum. The competencies and skills evolve (broadly) around the following: developing, articulating, implementing, stewarding, and promoting community involvement in developing a vision; promoting positive school culture; providing effective instructional program, applying best practices to student learning, and designing comprehensive professional growth programs; managing the operations and resources in the organization; collaborating with families and other community groups, responding to community interests and needs; mobilizing community resources; acting with integrity and ethically; understanding and responding to and influencing the larger context. 

Course Details

Course Description

This course will give you the requisite leadership skills and knowledge needed to become an outstanding school instructional leader. Therefore, part of the course content will focus on those qualities that will prepare you to become a dynamic leader who has the capacity to build positive relationships with teachers that will earn their trust that will give you the influence needed to lead them.

All aspects of this course are to help you develop the skills necessary for effective supervision of instruction while exploring the theoretical underpinnings of the knowledge base of the field of supervision-past, present, and future. The course focuses on instructional leadership, supervision of classroom performance, and the relationships of instructional procedures to the processes of observation and conferencing following a variety of supervisory/observational methods that offer both technical and developmental support for teacher professional growth and instructional improvement.

Course Syllabus

Please review the course syllabus linked here as a PDF:  Supervision of Instruction - Fall 2022 - 1.pdf