Online Educational Leadership Courses
Curriculum Details
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Conquer the daily challenges of education administration head-on with the Master of Arts in Educational Leadership online degree curriculum.
Our CAEP-accredited curriculum was designed by expert faculty with decades of real-world experience. They’ve ensured each course shapes you into a strategic, instructional, and cultural leader in the field of education.
In fewer than two years, graduate prepared for licensure as a K-12 principal in North Carolina. If you live outside of N.C., verify your state’s requirements for this licensure.
Courses
This course will examine multiple models for strong shared relationships between schools and stakeholders, such as family partnership programs, business outreach and civic engagement.
This course explores issues, problems and opportunities related to education in a diverse and multicultural society.
In this course, students will explore the challenges of supervision. Rather than the traditional approaches of the past, students will investigate the paradigm shift toward coaching teachers with an emphasis on professional growth. Such topics as shared leadership, collegiality, and effective teaching strategies to improve instruction will be discussed.
Within the context of contemporary global changes, students will study methods to develop, communicate, implement and evaluate a shared vision and the importance of open and effective collaboration and communication among the many areas of global relations. Shared decision-making as well as strategies to bring all students to an adequate achievement level will be explored.
In this course, students will explore how to lead schools from a traditional school culture to a professional learning community. As students develop a plan for continuous school improvement, they will learn how to allocate resources to better support a system that emphasizes student-centered learning.
Interns will learn from this course how to help develop the complex financial skills necessary to lead a fiscally sound school combined with placement of resources to ensure teaching and learning with an overview of personnel functions in the recruitment, selection, orientation, evaluation and development of school personnel. Interns will look at the issues involved from legal, ethical, and educational perspectives for high quality student experiences.
Students will study the ethical and legal dimensions of leadership through such topics as due process, search and seizure, staff evaluation and church/state conflicts, which will give them the necessary knowledge to understand and prevent legal problems. Equal opportunity, bilingual education, sexual discrimination and harassment and the education of exceptional children will also be discussed.
In this course, students focus on the role of effective leadership in curriculum development and its implementation. Topics include theoretical foundations, models for curriculum development, and curricular processes as well as the role of the educational leader in the process. Students will consider their own schools to determine avenues and areas for improvement in these areas.
This course will prepare students to understand and use sound procedures for gathering and synthesizing data to make instructional decisions and assist teachers to use a variety of assessments to improve student achievement. Students will use achievement data to identify gaps and cause analysis. This study will find answers to real questions about real schools and be part of a plan to implement school change in the schools where the students will be leading.
Students will collaborate with their school principals or other educational leader as well as a college-based instructor to undergo tasks that show a variety of leadership responsibilities.
A continuation of EDU 695, students will collaborate with their school principals or other educational leader as well as a college-based instructor to undergo tasks that show a variety of leadership responsibilities.
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Queens College online programs offer our students more than a degree. We offer them a journey. Here, our courses feature a modern learning environment that few others can. Simulations. This can sound like virtual reality or even the matrix, but it’s something far different and far more useful to your educational success. Simulations are a series of learnership and learning scenarios provided in a choose your own adventure format. Machine learning directs you along your session based on your own choices, using what you know.
It’s also asynchronous. Unlike a manual or a massive workbook, simulations, let our students immerse themselves in an environment where they can explore their learning in their way, and it all adds up to your academic engagement, your attention, and your advancement. These are real world scenarios embedded in almost every course within the Mel program, and yet this is not a test. There are no right answers. You learn cultural, historical, and topical competencies by experiencing them. What’s better than that? Find out more by going to Queens College online. Your journey is waiting.
Simulations – A Modern Learning Tool
Discover the power of learning simulations in the Master of Educational Leadership (MEL) program. This video explores how simulations, one of the many great features of the MEL program, enhance the education experience for Queens MEL students, preparing them for the real-world challenges that come with being an educational leader in a safe learning environment with no penalties.
“My favorite part of the simulations is the combination and ease of the learning experience with the introduction of new information through resources and engaging in a hands-on activity where I can apply the knowledge.” – Brandy Owens, MEL Student
“These simulations are definitely a helpful resource for teachers who are pursuing higher education.” – Diane Morton, MEL Student