EDLR 6500 - Instructional Leadership

Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to provide principal candidates with a framework for effective, practical use of a variety of instructional strategies to promote best inclusive practices. These strategies are used with teachers to improve curriculum and instruction. Through various learning experiences, you will develop your knowledge, skills and professional dispositions that will help you to lead your school. The course is designed to help you develop a foundation for leadership by understanding what differentiated instruction is, why it is appropriate for all learners, and how to serve as an instructional leader in this area. Principal candidates will explore and analyze Standards-Based Instruction, Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Development, Writing Across the Curriculum, Multiple Intelligences, Response to Intervention, Inclusion, Multiple Measures of Data to inform Decision-Making, and Leadership and Differentiated Instruction to support a diverse student body at all grade levels.