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University of Wyoming

Endorsement Program: Course Descriptions

 

EDAD 5010 Leadership for Curriculum Development (3 credits). The main learning outcome is curriculum development with topics including educational and cultural foundations, curricular outcomes, K-12 alignment, standards and community values, developing, managing, and evaluating curriculum, multicultural education, equal access (special education, gifted and talented, ESL, poverty, sex ed., character ed., etc.), academic freedom, and censorship. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

EDAD 5020 Leadership for School Organization (3 credits). Focus is on school organization with topic areas including school culture, community building, models for strategic planning, school governance/operations, site-based management, ethics and morality, budgeting and resource allocation, scheduling, school buildings and facilities, student rights, religious expression, and equal access. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

EDAD 5030 Leadership for Communication and Personnel Development (3 credits). Focus is on communication and personnel development. Topics include recruitment, selection, induction, supervision, and evaluation of staff, models of supervision, staff development and models of professional development, conflict management, politics, power and policy, public relations and communication, and employment law related to teachers and classified staff. Prerequisite: graduate standing.


EDAD 5040 Leadership for Instruction (3 credits). Focus is on teaching and learning with topic areas including mission, vision, and goal development, improvement of instruction, school improvement, research in school improvement, assessment and testing, models of instruction, integrating technology in the classroom, and privacy and confidentiality issues. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

EDAD 5580 Supervised Internship in Educational Administration (1-6 credits; maximum 12 credits). This course is designed to expand student knowledge by providing an intensive clinical experience in educational administration along with other activities that involve practical, field-based methods and experiences. Prerequisites: 8 hours of education administration courses, 15 hours of education, consent of department, and graduate standing.

EDRE 5530 Introduction to Research (if applicable)(3 credits). Offered every semester including online. Purpose is to develop graduate students into intelligently critical consumers of research through their understanding of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies employed in educational research and analysis of existing research of both types. Prerequisites: 15 hours of education courses and consent of instructor.