COURSE SYLLABUSEDUCATIONAL STUDIES, LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELINGI. Title: World Class Curriculum and Program DevelopmentEDUCATION WEEKCOURSE SYLLABUSEDUCATIONAL STUDIES, LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELINGADM 6553 SEMESTER HOURSI. Title: World Class Curriculum and Program DevelopmentII. Catalog Description: A study of the supervisory functions dealing with curriculum and program evaluation. In addition, analysis and techniques for bringing about program and curricular change resulting in achievement gains will be stressed. A field project is required. III. Purpose: To develop techniques and skills necessary to evaluate, organize, and establish effective world class standards and programs at the local school level. Principles, attitudes, skills, and KERA qualities critical to the professional administrator are incorporated into this course and fully comply with ISLLC and NCATE expectations. Predicated on the nature of the course, along with student readiness, provision is made for the acquisition of knowledge along with the extension and refinement of learning. These are provided with specific application of information and skills. The advanced student is prepared through reflection to integrate this ongoing preparation into a professional operating gestalt with a foundation of profession ethics.IV. Course Objectives: The student will……………..1. be proficient in leading the development and implementation of world class standards. (ISSLC 2-3)2. understand the community’s values, goals and what it wants the curriculum to achieve.(ISSLC 3-4)3. set forth, as a continuum, the skills and concepts the curriculum is designed to provide. (ISSLC 1-2)4. monitor the curriculum to ensure that the appropriate content and sequence are followed.(ISSLC 1-2)5. seek appropriate resources of time, money, and people assuring high standards. (ISSLC 3-4)6. identify the necessary techniques for initiating staff retraining programs. (ISSLC 3-4-5)7. become a competent verbal and nonverbal communicator. (ISSLC 1-2)8. demonstrate a strong 21st Century understanding of content. (ISSLC 1-4)9. bring about the positive attitudes among students, teachers, staff, parents, and the community that assure the achievement of higher standards. (ISSLC 2-3-4)10. use a variety of techniques and strategies to assess student achievement. (ISSLC 2-3-4)11. define the effectiveness of teaching practices. (ISSLC 2-3-4)12. define success of the affective domain of children. (ISSLC 2-3)13. master the process of collecting, organizing, analyzing, publishing, and monitoring data.(ISSLC 2-3-4)14. internalize the connectivity of effective schools, effective teaching, and effective principal. (ISSLC 1-2-3-4 )V. Content Outline1. Raising the school’s performance standards. ISSLC 2-32. Curriculum evaluation ISSLC 2-33. Local, State, National, and International Learning Standards ISSLC 2-34. ISLLC Standards5. International Baccalaureate Standards ISSLC 26. KERA goals ISSLC 27. Reform of the School and District ISSLC 1-2-38. The Standards Planning Process ISSLC 1-2-39. Institutional Communications ISSLC 1-2-3-410. Decision Making ISSLC 1-2-3-4-5-611. Evaluation of Curriculum Standards ISSLC 1-212. Managing Agreement ISSLC 1-2-3-4VI. Instructional Activities: Learning Focus1. Acquisition/Integration2. Extension/Refinement3. Application4. Reflection5. Professionalism6. Required Readings7. Role Playing8. Scenario Participation9. Current EventsThis course is designed to meet indicators and standards of learned societies and national and international standards for administrators. It further incorporates professional ethics, issues of advocacy, and current trends and research. Emphasis will be placed on the administrator’s role in the design and delivery of the curriculum standards. Specifically, the principal’s role as specified in KRS 160.345 will be utilized as guiding mandates for a tripartite approach to curriculum standards: The written curriculum; the taught curriculum; and the tested curriculum.VII. Field and Clinical Experiences1. Leadership/Management Package2. An individually selected problem which encompasses ten (10) clock hours of work with a currently practicing public school administrator will be completed during this course.THE PURPOSES, OBJECTIVES, EXPERIENCES AND READINGS WILL PROVIDE MULTIPLEEVIDENCES OF THE SIX ISLLC STANDARDSVIII. Text: Doyle, Denis P. and Pimentel, Susan, Raising the Standard, Corwin Press, 1999.IX. ResourcesDoyle, Pimentel (1998), Raising the StandardKentucky Curriculum StandardsSelected HandoutsEDUCATION WEEKX. Final grade computation will be as follows:A = 92% to 100%B = 91% to 80%C = 79% to 70%A grade below B does not meet the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling requirements for any degree or licensure program.XI. Attendance PolicyThis course adheres to the policy published in the MSU Graduate Bulletin. XII. Academic Honesty PolicyCheating, plagiarism (submitting another person’s material as one’s own, or doing work for another person which will receive academic credit) are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks, or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination, the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports, term papers or presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student’s own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place.September