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Teacher Leadership in Professional Learning Communities†
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Graduate Credit: 3 semester hours
Formats: Print & DVD or Online
Level: Grades K–12
Tuition: $495 / group rate $465
Registration Deadline: March 16, 2012
Complete by: June 30, 2012
Course #: EDUC-6940T
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10 weeks after receipt of coursework |
Extend your scope of influence from working with peers to engaging stakeholders throughout the greater school community. In this graduate-level course, you will have the opportunity to learn the processes, benefits, and challenges of building and working in professional learning communities. Identify issues and address problems that affect student learning and achievement, and expand your position as a teacher-leader in your own learning community.
Teaching Tangibles
- Explore the impact of learning communities on the role of teachers.
- Analyze the relationship between learning communities and teacher leadership opportunities.
- Examine your school’s stages of learning-community development.
- Discover how incorporating learning communities changes school culture.
- Evaluate the role of online learning communities in facilitating collaboration and professional development.
†Credits for up to four of these courses may be applied toward a Walden University M.S. in Education program. Please call 1-866-492-5336 and speak to an Enrollment Advisor for more details.
More Information
Download a course fact sheet to share with your supervisor, principal, and other teaching colleagues who may be interested in learning more about Canter graduate courses. The overview includes a description of the course as well as information on:
- Course topics and outcomes
- Course assessment criteria
- System requirements (online format)
- Featured education experts
- Accredited partner universities
Peter Afflerbach, Ph.D.
Dr. Afflerbach is professor and director of the Reading Center at the University of Maryland at College Park and a noted authority on reading assessments. He has been published widely in the field of reading with a particular focus on developmental reading, comprehension, content area reading, and issues in statewide reading assessment.
Susan Mandel Glazer, Ed.D.
Dr. Glazer is professor of education and founder and director of the Center for Reading and Writing at Rider University. She is a past president of the International Reading Association (IRA), and was the 1998 recipient of IRA’s Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading award. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Assessment IS Instruction: Reading, Writing, Spelling and Phonics for ALL Learners. She also writes a monthly column for Teaching K–8 magazine.
Richard L. Vacca, Ph.D.
Dr. Vacca is a professor in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at Kent State University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the College Reading Association (CRA) and received the CRA’s A. B. Herr Award for Outstanding Contributions to Reading Education. A past president of the International Reading Association (IRA), Dr. Vacca is co-author of Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum and Reading and Learning to Read.
The following course materials are included in the cost of tuition and will be delivered directly to you.:
- Textbook: Learning By Doing, by Richard DuFour,
R. Eaker, and T. Many - Textbook: Building School-Based Teacher Learning Communities, by M. McLaughlin and E. Talbert
- DVD: Teacher Leadership in Professional
Learning Communities
(For online format, the DVD is provided as backup to streaming video online.)
If you order the print & DVD format, you will also receive
the following.*:
- Study guide: Teacher Leadership in Professional
Learning Communities - Course information packet
*For online format, the study guide and course information packet are provided in your online classroom.
Prerequisite
This is a graduate-level course; therefore, you must have a bachelor's degree or above to enroll and receive credit.
Earning Graduate Credit
Total coursework for this course is equivalent to a 45 contact-hour course. Graduate credit will be issued when you successfully complete the following course requirements:
- Collaborate with study partner(s) (Print & DVD format only).
- Collaborate with colleagues through discussion boards (Online format only).
- View video segments.
- Complete required text/journal readings, assignments, and the final paper.
Course Completion Deadline
Print & DVD format: coursework must be postmarked on or before June 30, 2012
Online format: coursework must be submitted online on or before June 30, 2012
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