Learning Objectives
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THE KIPP PROGRAM
AND OTHER LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAMS OFFERED
BY THE LEEEGH
Expected Date of Completion: _____________
Introduction:
The first course offered by the LEEEGH in leadership development had the following goals:
- Defining Leadership. Assisting teachers in developing their own working definitions of leadership and discussing with them our own working definition of leadership.
- Identifying and discussing key leadership skills, traits, and styles appropriate for teachers
- Leadership Self-Assessment – (Level 1 Leadership in our book)
- Assessing others’ leadership skills and styles – Perception – (Level 2 Leadership in our book)
- Key attributes of inspiring, motivating, and enrolling others – (Level 3 Leadership in our book)
- Leadership as goal setting at the organizational level, and taking responsibility for process development and results – Develop – (Level 4 Leadership in our book)
- Key aspects of mentoring and being mentored by others, including teachers
- Leading students and student activities– challenges, pitfalls, assessing and getting feedback
- Leading parents and collaborating with parents and other stakeholders and supporters of the school
- How to form leadership groups that meet regularly and other forms of leadership support/activities among teachers
- How to apply these leadership strategies, skills, and principles outside of the school environment
- Resource development and “resource capture” as a leadership skill (enrolling others to assist, delegation, motivation)
- Visioning for the individual teacher, with emphasis on how to accomplish or make great strides quickly toward achieving the vision and how to measure the progress
These goals should be restated as learning objectives to match the language used by educators. Some of these goals translate into learning objectives and some do not since we are seeking to achieve “skill objectives” rather than “learning objectives” as the essential element of value created for the teachers we train. THE LEEEGH recognized that one must learn things to achieve a skill and learning is a critical component of our training. Therefore, this document shall begin the process of documenting the learning objectives of our leadership training program.
History
When THE LEEEGH created courses for both UNC and UCD we provided learning objectives to both institutions with our curriculum. They were:
1. To demonstrate the important role of Teachers as Leaders in our community and country
2. Learn best practice leadership skills, traits, and styles
3. Identify Teachers leadership role in the various audiences of the learning environment
Evolution
The course has evolved to include many learning objectives which include:
- Learn how to become more self aware
- Learn how to shorten the time between having an idea and implementing it successfully
- Learning how to delegate
- Learning how to achieve goals with less effort
- Learning how to monitor projects
- Learning how to hold others accountable
- Learning how to reduce wasting of time
- Learning how to develop plans that result in success
- Learn how to evaluate projects
- Learn how to communicate more effectively
- Learn how to motivate others
- Learn how to be a scholar
- Learn how to mentor
- Learn how to coach
- Learn how to be coached
- Learn how to be mentored
- Learn when to collaborate and when not to collaborate
- Learn how to create a successful working definition of leadership
- Learn how to speak up to power to right the course
- Learn how form and maintain successful teams
- Learn how to improve student performance
- Learn how to relate more effectively with parents
- Learn how to relate more effectively with the outside community
- Learn how to relate more effectively with school administrators
- Learn how to give effective feedback
- Learn how to receive effective feedback
- Learn how to develop robust feedback systems
- Learn how to build and sustain confidence
- Learn how to secure accurate information sources
- Learn how to focus and manage conversations
- Learning how to deal with fear
- Learning how to instill courage in one’s self and others
Adding and refining learning objectives:
Organizing these learning objectives into categories:
Writing articles about these learning objectives
Putting these objectives in priority order
Putting these objectives on our website
Measuring how effective our programs are in meeting each one of these objectives – via the pre and post test.
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* The concept is incredibly important. I believe that building leadership capacity at all levels of school districts is essential if we are to solve our problems of practice and focus on continuous improvement...[read more]
Cindy Stevenson Superintendent, Jefferson County Schools, Golden CO