CI/LHE 5585, Teacher Leadership and School Improvement, is a course that was designed to help teachers develop understanding of and skill in assuming leadership roles and responsibilities in their schools. This course focuses on those aspects of school leadership seen as most appropriate and potentially beneficial for teacher involvement. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between teacher leadership, school effectiveness, and site-based accountability. Students learn the knowledge, skills, and attitudes through both university classroom and site-based clinical activities. These activities include such clinical actions as participant-observer studies, shadow studies, classroom action research, problem-based learning activities, case studies, survey research, and qualitative research studies.
Our proposal is to design and implement web-based instruction to enhance course delivery of CI 5585. Within this web, create a mode (discussion boards, chat rooms) for on-line meetings between students and instructors in addition to time in class. We will also integrate the use of technology as a model of appropriate use.
