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 Teach. Learn. Lead. 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 this course, learners are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Articulate transformation as teacher leaders, learners, and wholehearted selves, including a plan for continual growth.
2. Apply self-selected research-based strategies into classroom practice, exercising agency.
3. Integrate a variety of learning theories and research-based strategies into curricular design.
4. Contribute to professional dialogue.
5. Draw on strengths to be agents of change.
6. Describe the role of engagement (purposeful investment in learning) in teaching and learning and apply it to practice.