EDL564 Labor Leadership for Improving Teaching and Learning

This course will provide students with a foundation of instructional leadership and instructional improvement strategies. By framing student learning as an essential goal of progressive educational labor unions, this course will begin with the fundamental issues in teaching and learning as currently defined by research on instruction, curriculum, assessment, and human learning. The course will then move toward organizational issues in teaching and learning, including district curriculum administration, student engagement, standards, accountability, and instructional leadership. Candidates will examine how their unions support classroom- based instruction. They will look at theory and practice on how unions can organizationally influence teaching and learning. Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the Progressive Leadership for Labor in Education Program or consent of department. 5 semester hours