Fall 2017 Electives

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1	Fall 2017 Electives
2					** Courses/sections that are highlighted red are full at this time or have been cancelled due to low enrollment. ***
3	ED.705.605	Ethics, Integrity, and the Responsibility of Leaders
4	Course Description:	Confronted with moral problems every day, people make critical decisions based on their beliefs, which incorporate their core values. Understanding how values are formed and applied, and being able to assess those judgments, are essential to leaders most must guide and assess employees' integrity and ethnical behavior every day. Through readings, case studies, and discussion, students probe how executives and supervisors resolve ethical problems. They discover ways to develop and gain employee input to and support for agency and unit values. In addition, students examine the forces that currently guide professional and organizational behavior, such as the Constitution of the United States, judicial opinion, and religious doctrine. (3 credits).
5	SECTION -9A	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Christopher Dreisbach
6	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
7	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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9	ED.705.700	Individual and Group Dynamics
10	Course Description:	Individual and group dynamics are at the core of evidence-based management practices. Leaders direct individuals and groups and the interaction that occurs among multiple groups toward accomplishment of a mission or purpose. Additionally, they need to understand self-leadership involving personal resilience as well as methods of building cultures of resilience. Knowing how groups and followers function is essential to sound decision making, implementing new concepts, changing direction, solving problems, and motivating others. Students dissect modern theories and research in individual and group dynamics. They identify and fit accepted principles of dynamics to their current work environment, respecting the uniqueness of their organization. They differentiate small and large group dynamics and dissect the role of group leader, focusing on issues such as boundaries, group identity, cohesion, conflict, power, group recognition, and intergroup alliances.
11	SECTION -9A	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Eric Mayes
12	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
13	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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15	ED.705.718	Strategic Planning for Leaders
16	Course Description:	A strategic plan sets a steady course for an organization, allowing it to endure changes in administration, shifts in demand for service, political influence, fiscal fluctuation, and more. Setting the course of action through strategic planning is relevant to every organization, regardless of size, discipline, or task. Through readings and discussion, students develop an individualized approach to strategic planning based on experience and needs within their own agencies. Students apply an array of techniques to assess, modify, and present strategic plans and motivate others to participate in the strategic planning process. They learn to incorporate strategic plans into their day-to-day functions. Students employ a variety of techniques to involve and motivate employees to participate in the strategic planning process and implement the plan once it is established.
17	SECTION -9A	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Ira Blatstein
18	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
19	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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21	ED.810.607	Culturally Responsive Teaching
22	Course Description:	Candidates will explore the social, organizational, and structural factors influencing educational opportunities, experiences, and outcomes of culturally diverse students. Through personal reflection and analysis, candidates will determine the best way for them to positively impact students, regardless of ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, etc. Course content is aligned with the Maryland Common Core Curriculum employed by partnership schools. (3 credits)
23	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: John Krownapple
24	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
25	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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27	ED.810.665	School Reform in the Urban Environment
28	Course Description:	This course examines systemic school reform movements in the urban school context. School reform occurs at many different levels, from the classroom level with individual teachers, to the national level with federal mandates. We will explore reform at different levels and analyze the theory, policies, practices, and controversies of various mechanisms of reform, including the K-8 movement, small high schools, school choice (charters and vouchers), mayoral control, merit-pay, and alternative routes to teaching. Participants will synthesize information about school reform in urban schools and systems and will reflect on their role in this process. Final evaluation of reform strategies will be grounded in the effect these reforms are having on improving learning for all students in urban schools. (3 credits)
29	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Beth Nolan
30	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
31	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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33	ED.813.651	Introduction to Education Budgeting
34	Course Description:	Educational leaders must be equipped to analyze and create budgets and other financial tools in order to fully realize their vision of high quality instruction in high performing schools. This course will introduce students to the fundamental principles of budgeting for educational institutions and provide them with a set of basic skills to create and analyze budgets in their specific professional context.
35	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Joseph Olchefske
36	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
37	SECTION -92	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Joseph Olchefske
38	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
39	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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41	ED.813.652	Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis
42	Course Description:	The course provides an introduction to international comparisons of education systems as it reviews the history, comparisons and the educational systems in Europe, Asia and the OECD countries. International education systems and policies are examined on the local and national levels. Methodologies for comparison are explored. Education leaders will become knowledgeable of the systems in competitor countries in order to make their schools academically competitive in the global economy.
43	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Laurence Peters
44	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
45	SECTION -92	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Laurence Peters
46	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
47	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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57	ED.851.512	Politics of Education
58	Course Description:	Federal involvement in education has grown enormously in recent decades with calls for national standards and increasing reliance on standardized tests. While state legislatures and school boards traditionally provide funding and policy, mayors, parents and advocates of charter schools are seeking to redefine the nature of local control. Education leaders should understand the politics of education; the swiftly changing balance of power; and how education politics is practiced between and within the levels of government and the public. Students will study and analyze current issues and case studies that focus on the politics of education.
59	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Isaak Aronson
60	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
61	SECTION -92	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Laurence Peters
62	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
63	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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65	ED.851.603	School Law
66	Course Description:	Participants explore the legal foundations and structure of education and consider contemporary issues based on legislation and court decisions. Students develop techniques of legal research and analyze a topic of interest.
67	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Edmund O'Meally
68	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
69	SECTION -92	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Bevin-Casey Gugliucciello
70	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
71	SECTION -93	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Andrew Nussbaum
72	10/2/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
75	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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77	ED.851.705	Effective Leadership
78	Course Description:	Students review the principles and techniques required of principals, assistant principals, and teacher leaders. The course emphasizes diagnosis of the school climate, principles of distributed leadership, motivation of faculty teams, and the dynamics of working in and with groups to accomplish school improvement goals. Emphasis is placed on the leader’s role in creating a collaborative vision/mission for a school and in establishing meaningful working relationships with the larger community.
79	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Veronique Guglicucciello
80	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
81	SECTION -92	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Nicholas D'Ambrosio
82	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
83	SECTION -93	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Frank Eastham
84	9/5/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
85	SECTION -94	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: David Pinder
86	10/2/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
89	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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91	ED.871.501	Introduction to Children and Youth with Exceptionalities
92	Course Description:	Students investigate the major areas of exceptionality addressing the characteristics and educational needs of students with a broad range of special instructional needs. Students review incidence and etiology, diagnostic and instructional services, educational continuum of programs, and findings of recent research. (3 credits)
93	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Benjamin Starr
94	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
95	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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97	ED.871.510	Legal Aspects, Service Systems and Current Issues in Special Education
98	Course Description:	This survey course reviews litigated and legislated standards for special education and related services for persons with disabilities. Students explore current issues in the provision of services for persons with disabilities, including inclusion, the response to intervention (RTI), and regulations for eligibility. (3 credits)
99	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Barbara Thompson
100	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
101	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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103	ED.877.551	Survey of Autism and Other Pervasive Development Disorders
104	Course Description:	Providing a comprehensive review of current information about autism and other pervasive developmental disorders, this course draws on research findings and clinical experience from some related disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, neurobiology, and pediatrics. In addition to exploring theories of causation, developmental aspects, descriptive and diagnostic characteristics, and legal and social issues, students are introduced to the primary therapeutic and intervention strategies employed with students who have autism. The theoretical basis of, and empirical evidence for, the diverse traditional and nontraditional therapies that have been proposed for persons with autism are also explored.
105	SECTION -91	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Dawn Fraser
106	8/30/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online
107	Comments/Notes:	Online courses use Blackboard as a platform. Students are required to login to Blackboard three days prior to the course start date in ISIS for specific course information and announcements. To access Blackboard go to https://my.jh.edu, select the Education tab from the left menu, then select Blackboard. Your courses are listed under My Courses Plus.
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109	ED.893.508	Technology and the Science of Learning
110	Course Description:	New technologies are part of the intellectual landscape in which new kinds of knowledge are breaking down the boundaries of previous distinct disciplines. The design and use of new technologies make possible new approaches to learning, new contexts for leaning, new tools to support learning, and new understandings of the dynamics of the learning process itself. This course examines the role of technology relative to the key concepts of active learning, metacognition, and transfer of knowledge from multidisciplinary perspectives on learning. Based on the new science of learning, students will develop and implement technology related strategies that align instructional technology to standards-based instruction, teach problem solving and higher-order thinking skills, promote cooperative learning, and use reflective teaching and inductive approaches to increase student achievement.
111	SECTION -92	Level: Graduate	Credits: 3.00	Instructor: Beth Poss
112	9/11/2017	DOW: TBA	Location: Online