Teacher Leader Program
Teacher Leadership Brochure
Title: Practicing Leadership for Teaching and Learning
Program Overview:
This masters program is developed to meet the expressed needs of teachers and school districts. It provides high quality relevant content, delivered flexibly and in a timeframe that meets the professional and personal needs of teachers.
The program incorporates advanced level professional knowledge, skills and dispositions into a curriculum that allows maximum flexibility. It fosters academic, practical, and professional development of a cohort of practicing teachers with the ambition to be leaders in their classrooms, schools, communities, and fields.
The Purpose of Leadership:
Teacher Leadership is for building a community that supports learning for all students and distributing leadership that creates and sustains a culture of continuous improvement.
Program Design:
The course of study is rigorous, relevant and rewarding. It will provide teacher leaders opportunities to explore their own practice while engaging in school improvement activities to support building and district goals. This will be accomplished by the integration of three key elements:
- Indiana University Master’s Coursework
- District, Building & Classroom Level Teacher Leadership Activities
It is the belief of this program that teacher leadership can be effectively developed through the independent activities of each of these three elements. It is the commitment of the program that the integration of these three elements will provide a dynamic experience for personal and professional growth for the benefit of all children.
Action Research (Three Dimensions)
The first dimension is leadership in the classroom. Teachers will improve their instructional practices through guided research experiences and the construction of a national board portfolio. The second dimension is leadership in their school. Here teachers engage as partners with their building principals to develop school improvement plans. Through defining measurable goals and planning clear steps, teacher/principal teams will work towards school improvement. Finally, this pattern of leadership will escalate towards the district level. Teachers will work in collaborative teams towards relevant issues of practice.
Course of Study:
- 30 Core Credit Base
- A500: Introduction to Educational Leadership
- A608: Legal Perspectives in Education
- Y510: Action Research
- J500: Instruction in the Context of Curriculum
- A510: School Community Relations
- A515: Teacher Development and Evaluation
- P507: Assessment in Schools
- H520: Education and Social Issues
- A590: Portfolio Development Seminar
- A695: Practicum in Educational Leadership
- 6 Credit Elective Concentration - Teachers will be supported in selecting an area of concentration to support their curricular focus and professional goals.
- Total 36 Credits