SIMON FRASER UNIVERSiTY ?

EDUCATION 423-4

TEACHING AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS

(ME)

Summer Session, 1991

Instructor: A. Tindill

(July 2 - August 9)

Tuesday & Thursday, 12:30 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Location: MPX 8680

PREREQUISiTE:

60 hours of credit. EDUC. 220, or equivalent. EDUC. 320 recommended.

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to reexamine the paradigm created through the

effective schools literature and to challenge the findings within that model

through comparison to current notions of teachers as leaders under the

umbrella of "restructuring." With the initiatives contained in the

Year 2000

document, the profession is being asked to work in new ways, ways which will

require a great deal of change in order to effectively implement the

imperatives. In this milieu, teacher effectiveness assumes a new meaning.

Processes to achieve this end will be examined and discussed.

COURSE OBJECT1VIS

• to critically examine school improvement notions from the past;

• to reexamine teacher effectiveness literature;

• to discuss current literature on teacher effectiveness;

• to consider restructuring literature and contemporary applications;

• to apply

Year 2000

initiatives to what is known about the change process

and working with adults;

• to examine possibilities for new approaches to teacher effectiveness for the 1990's;

• to develop skills in working with adults in order to foster the development of

teacher leaders

TOPICS

• School improvement

• Past teacher effectiveness programs

• Future teacher effectiveness strategies

• Key issues in

Year 2000

document:

process learning;

integrated curricular;

assessment/evaluation

• Restructuring

• Adult learning curves

• Change strategy skills

• Developing teacher leaders

• Teachers leading teachers

COURSE ASSESSMENT

Criteria will be shared in class.

N.B.: This course is cross listed with EDUC 823-5