Student Learning Outcomes M.Ed. Leadership Specialty

1. Candidate is a lifelong learner:
   1. Candidates analyze his/her ideas about change and the change process.
2. Candidate is empathetic and respectful:
   1. Candidates will value the importance of adopting relational strategies that are appropriate for the individual circumstances, cultures, and abilities of students;
   2. Candidates will exhibit thoughtful, responsible, and participatory attitudes and behaviors characteristic of a professional educator and a reflective practitioner.
3. Candidate communicates and works effectively with others:
   1. Candidates will understand techniques for collaborative work;
   2. Candidates will know the role of meditation in the coaching/supervision process;
   3. Candidates will collaborate with colleagues on extending understanding and implementing new teaching strategies;
   4. Candidates will acquire strategies for helping students to expand their response repertoire for problem solving and positive, fair choice making.
4. Candidate has a broad knowledge about the individuals and world around him/her:
   1. Candidates analyze data from her/his school to justify a possible change goal;
   2. Candidates will understand how diversity among individuals and communities impacts their school;
   3. Candidates will understand how diversity impacts reform efforts at the school, district, and national level.
5. Candidate has a deep knowledge about the subjects they teach:
   1. Candidates know and use theory base of teacher leadership;
   2. Candidates understand the nature of knowledge and how a teacher’s paradigm of knowledge and assumptions shape their instructional decision-making.
6. Candidate has a deep knowledge about how people learn:
   1. Candidates will use course concepts and recommended strategies to formulate a framework for making changes in management and instructional practices;
   2. Candidates will understand the neurological basis of student learning and of the impact of specific instructional strategies.
7. Candidate has a deep knowledge and skills necessary to use instruction and the organization of classrooms to assist all learners to succeed:
   1. Candidates will gain insight into the role the teacher plays in cultivating the relationship the learner has with the object of study;
   2. Candidates will become skilled in reflectively analyzing and monitoring the development of personal classroom practices, beliefs, and style of leadership.
8. Candidate fuses theory and practice:
   1. Candidates analyze school data and develop a personal theory of action;
   2. Candidates will understand the relationship between the theory base of teacher leadership and school culture;
   3. Candidates conduct peer coaching cycles, incorporating insights and techniques from cognitive coaching and clinical supervision;
   4. Candidates give skilled assistance to a colleague in analyzing and developing a lesson or learning activity;
   5. Candidates will use course concepts and recommended strategies to formulate a framework for making changes in management and instructional practices;
   6. Candidates will modify existing instructional practices and adopt new ones capable of engaging all students in the learning process.