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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSiTY ?
EDUCATION 423-4
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TEACHING AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
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(ME)
Summer Session, 1991
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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:
a.
process learning;
b.
integrated curricular;
c.
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