| Curriculum development - Programs of The Institute for Collaborative Leadership: Offering educators, school administrators and community leaders coaching, retreats, professional development, assessment and curriculum development to advance the knowledge, skills and effective application of collaborative leadership in all sectors through research, training, advocacy and best practice. |
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Curriculum development - Programs of The Institute for Collaborative Leadership |
In conjunction with its research agenda, the Institute is engaged in the development of curricula and the training of teachers and service providers (in preK-12 education, youth services, teacher preparation programs, and philanthropies) fostering instruction in relationship management and collaboration skills.
The mission of the Institute - to advance knowledge, practice and scholarship in relationship building, relationship management, partnerships and collaborative leadership - is intended to have both immediate and long-term effect.
- We apply the lessons we have learned (through observation, reflection, and experience) as we learn from them for immediate impact through service partnerships, consultations, training, coaching, seminars and retreats.
- The long-term impact of our research and growing knowledge base will be through our influence on preservice curricula for teachers, counselors, administrators and other professionals, and through inservice training we provide to the professors, trainers and other professionals who find themselves teaching future leaders.
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The range of curriculum development opportunities proposed for the Institute includes
- Course/module development for graduate Educational Administration
- Course/module development for graduate Counseling Education
- Course/module development for graduate/undergraduate Teacher Education
- Development of content and pedagogical strategies for introducing/developing collaboration skills/dispositions at Elementary, Middle Grades, High School levels
- Development of instructional resources for Foster Children and Professional Foster Care Providers as a special case; a defining characteristic of foster children is the absence of
- sustained, dependable and effective relationships, and
- sustained, dependable and effective models and teachers - both formal and informal - to guide their development of effective relationships
- Understanding Entrepreneurism as a Tool for Teaching - Entrepreneurism is, fundamentally, the creative extrapolation of constructivism; entrepreneurs extend their personal histories, prior knowledge and relationships into new constructs or inventions. This, too, is the work of teachers. Understanding what contributes to entrepreneurial spirit introduces new insights to what contributes to excellent doggedly creative, persistently attentive, inventively student-centered teaching...and vice-versa.
- Understanding Entrepreneurism as a Tool for Learning - Culturally isolated and deeply rural students may benefit from the introduction of entrepreneurism in classroom teaching strategies.
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