COURSE SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION TO
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
3 Credit hours
Thursday,
CEB Room 209
Held as companion
course with EDA 705
Office Phone: 895-1896 Office
hours: Wed.
Office Fax:
895-3492 Thur.
E-mail:carltonp@unlv.Nevada.edu
Web Page: http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/pcarlton/
Course Description:
The course is introductory in nature and focuses on organizational and leadership theory and practice, with emphasis upon schools as social systems. Content will include material on leadership, organizational structure and function, employee motivation, decision-making, school climate, organizational change, and conflict resolution.
The course is primarily lecture-based, with additional learning opportunities provided through classroom discussions in large and small groups, student presentations, case studies, and workshop experiences.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course:
Students will be able to identify, discuss and apply major leadership theories in real life settings.
Students will be able to discuss the concepts of motivation, vision, and leadership and will be prepared to develop a personal vision and leadership statement.
Students will have developed and appreciation of the complexities of organizational change process and leadership theories when applied in school settings.
Students will have developed
enhanced library and electronic research skills and will have demonstrated the
ability to prepare carefully researched and closely constructed written
reports.
Required Course Materials:
Chance, Patti L. and Chance, Edward W. Introduction to
Educational Leadership & Organizational Behavior.
Carlton,
Patrick W. The Practice of Leadership: The
Life and
Times of Joshua Chamberlain. (rev. ed.), 2001. (On CD)
Carlton, Patrick W. “Intuitive Virtue: Public School Principals and the Leadership Practices Inventory.” 2001. (On CD)
Prompt, on-time, and regular attendance. Excuses granted in advance on an individual basis only.
Active class participation
Individually written analysis/report on a chosen textbook concerning organizations/leadership. Maximum of two typed pages. (Bibliography available on CD.)
Participation in classroom workshop activities
Preparation of a 20 page term paper on an
aspect of administrative theory. Papers are to be typewritten and double
spaced, with required bibliography. APA, Turabian, or
Or:
Alternatively, conduct of an oral interview and analysis of the leadership characteristics of a former (retired) CCSD principal. Students will be expected to submit the audio tape(s) of the interview, which shall be at least one hour and no more than two hours in length, plus a complete typed transcript of the interview on a 3 ½” floppy disk in Microsoft Word . Students will prepare an analysis of the former principal’s leadership style using several of the models presented during class. A brief oral report may be made to the class on the results of the study.
Brief weekly quizzes (13 in number) will be administered via WebCT. Each will be released for 7 days, during which students are expected to complete and file them.
Additional assignments as required.
A final examination will be administered.
Text Analysis/Report— 50 points
Term Project Report--- 100 points
Quizzes (total of 13)-- 130 points
Final Exam --- 100 points
Total 400 points
A total of 400 points may be earned during the semester. The following grading scale will be employed:
A = 97%
A- = 92%
B+ = 86%
B = 80%
B- = 75%
C+ = 70%
C = 65%
C- = 60%
D = 55%
The course is primarily lecture and multimedia based.
course materials prior to scheduled instruction is an absolute
requirement. Students will need to have mastered internet and E-mail skills
and will be required to provide an E-mail address for student-professor out of class communications.
Schedule
of Content and Sequence
Unit #1
Introduction
Review
of Course Content for EDA 701 & 705
Student
Performance Standards and Assignments
Unit #2
Introduction to the Study of Ed. Administration
Introduction
to Theory
Organization
Theory
Quiz
1
Unit #3 Schools of Administrative Thought
Bureaucratic and Scientific
Management
Quiz
2
Unit #4 Schools of Administrative Thought
(cont.)
***Deadline for submitting Plan for EDA 705
Field Experience
Quiz 3
Unit #5 Schools
of Administrative Thought (cont.)
Open
Systems (Behavioral Science)
*** Deadline for selection of book for
analysis
Quiz
4
Unit #6 Introduction to Leadership Theory
Quiz
5
Unit #7
Leadership Theory (cont.)
The Managerial Grid (Blake and Mouton)
Situational Leadership (Hersey
and Blanchard)
Theory X—Theory Y (McGregor)
Quiz 6
Unit #8 Leadership Theory (cont) “Practice of
Leadership”
Leadership
Practices Inventory (Kouzes/Posner)
Quiz
7
Unit #9 Leadership Practices Inventory Workshop “Intuitive Virtue”
Quiz
8
Unit #10
Introduction to Motivation Theory
Need Theories
Expectancy
Theory
Equity Theory
Quiz
9
Unit
#11. Organizational
Theory
Quiz 10
Unit #12 Organizational Description
** Book Analysis Due—Oral Reports Begin**
Quiz
11
Break—Veterans Day
Unit #13
Systems Theory and Organizational Climate
**Final Exam
Issued**
**Book
Analysis Oral Reports Concluded**
Quiz 12
Break--Thanksgiving
Unit #14 Power in
Organizations
Student Oral Reports on Term Projects Begin
Quiz 13
Unit #15 ***Student Oral Reports on Term Projects
Completed
***EDA 705 Final Products submitted
***Final Exam submitted
Class Ends
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