MED655 Becoming a Teacher Leader (4 cr.)

In this culminating semester, learners prepare themselves to be learning leaders.  They identify an approach to leadership, identifying opportunities to embrace and practice the role as a teacher leader. Learners expand their circle of influence by continuing to develop their personal learning network and facilitating dialogue amongst other educators at the spring conference. Leading with curiosity and gratitude, learners use concept-centered dialogue to cultivate leadership qualities. Learners incorporate real life, authentic learning experiences into their practice by integrating design, collaboration, and community-based processes, while applying the habit of reflection. Learners write an intentional plan of continued growth and application of learning as they embark on being a master teacher.

Upon completion of the course, learners are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Participate in professional dialogue.
2. Identify their own leadership style through a developed capacity for self-awareness.
3. Draw on their strengths to be agents of change.
4. Embed research into the design of engaging instruction, environment and assessment.
5. Articulate their transformation as teachers, learners, and wholehearted selves, including a plan for continual growth.
6. Unpack engagement.