Entrepreneur in Education Focus
Welcome to the Entrepreneur in Education Focus!
Welcome to the Entrepreneur in Education Focus!
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Leadership in Entrepreneurial Education
Leadership in Entrepreneurial Education
Promoting innovation in the paradigms, strategies, values and culture in school systems, social entrepreneurial ventures, and education companies is critical in today’s educational landscape. This focus area emphasizes preparing international entrepreneurs to be creative and innovative, with the knowledge and skills to become successful leaders in entrepreneurial education around the world.
Promoting innovation in the paradigms, strategies, values and culture in school systems, social entrepreneurial ventures, and education companies is critical in today’s educational landscape. This focus area emphasizes preparing international entrepreneurs to be creative and innovative, with the knowledge and skills to become successful leaders in entrepreneurial education around the world.
Entrepreneur in Education Focus Courses - 9 credit hours
Entrepreneur in Education Focus Courses - 9 credit hours
855.614 Planning a New Venture in Education
855.614 Planning a New Venture in Education
ED.855.614. Planning a New Venture in Education. 3 Credits.
ED.855.614. Planning a New Venture in Education. 3 Credits.
This course provides students with a survey of the skills necessary to plan a new venture in education, either within an organization or a brand-new enterprise. Topics taught in this course include Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Finance and Budgeting, and Leadership.
This course provides students with a survey of the skills necessary to plan a new venture in education, either within an organization or a brand-new enterprise. Topics taught in this course include Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Finance and Budgeting, and Leadership.
855.617 Launching a New Venture in Education
855.617 Launching a New Venture in Education
ED.855.617. Launching a New Venture in Education. 3 Credits.
ED.855.617. Launching a New Venture in Education. 3 Credits.
This course provides students with a survey of the skills necessary to launch and operate a venture in education, either within an organization or an independent enterprise. Topics taught in this course include Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Securing Funding and Capital, and Strategic Growth and Transition.
This course provides students with a survey of the skills necessary to launch and operate a venture in education, either within an organization or an independent enterprise. Topics taught in this course include Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Securing Funding and Capital, and Strategic Growth and Transition.
855.618 The Sustainable Venture
855.618 The Sustainable Venture
ED.855.618. The Sustainable Venture. 3 Credits.
ED.855.618. The Sustainable Venture. 3 Credits.
This course provides students with the tools and resources necessary for ensuring long-term success and impact for an educational venture. The course will review how to build stability with strategic partnerships. Further, it will teach students how educational ventures weather leadership transitions and changing sociopolitical landscapes. Additionally, the course will cover the importance of social capitalism in education and a venture’s contribution to social justice to ensure long-term sustainability.
This course provides students with the tools and resources necessary for ensuring long-term success and impact for an educational venture. The course will review how to build stability with strategic partnerships. Further, it will teach students how educational ventures weather leadership transitions and changing sociopolitical landscapes. Additionally, the course will cover the importance of social capitalism in education and a venture’s contribution to social justice to ensure long-term sustainability.
Core Requirements - 24 credit hours
Core Requirements - 24 credit hours
887.615 Explorations in Mind, Brain, and Teaching
887.615 Explorations in Mind, Brain, and Teaching
ED.887.615. Explorations in Mind, Brain, and Teaching. 3 Credits.
ED.887.615. Explorations in Mind, Brain, and Teaching. 3 Credits.
During the past decade, the learning sciences have produced a vast frontier of knowledge on how the brain processes, stores, and retrieves information. Educators have increasingly recognized a role as consumers of this emerging knowledge. Participants in the course will review this research, examining how it intersects with the correlates of a model of research-based effective teaching including the teaching of the arts across content areas. Topics of study will include the brain’s memory systems, the impact of emotions on learning, the processes involved in higher order thinking and learning, and issues related to child development. Participants will apply course studies to the creation of learning units that emphasize application of knowledge and the integration of the arts. ( 3 credits)
During the past decade, the learning sciences have produced a vast frontier of knowledge on how the brain processes, stores, and retrieves information. Educators have increasingly recognized a role as consumers of this emerging knowledge. Participants in the course will review this research, examining how it intersects with the correlates of a model of research-based effective teaching including the teaching of the arts across content areas. Topics of study will include the brain’s memory systems, the impact of emotions on learning, the processes involved in higher order thinking and learning, and issues related to child development. Participants will apply course studies to the creation of learning units that emphasize application of knowledge and the integration of the arts. ( 3 credits)
855.609 Introduction to Entrepreneurship in Education
855.609 Introduction to Entrepreneurship in Education
ED.855.609. Introduction to Entrepreneurship in Education. 3 Credits.
ED.855.609. Introduction to Entrepreneurship in Education. 3 Credits.
This course provides students with the foundational skills necessary to think and behave entrepreneurially within educational systems and organizations in order to solve intractable problems. Students will formulate an understanding of themselves as entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities around them, and develop a method for solving a problem relevant to them. Further, students will learn the role of capital and socially conscious capitalism in creating sustainable ventures.
This course provides students with the foundational skills necessary to think and behave entrepreneurially within educational systems and organizations in order to solve intractable problems. Students will formulate an understanding of themselves as entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities around them, and develop a method for solving a problem relevant to them. Further, students will learn the role of capital and socially conscious capitalism in creating sustainable ventures.
855.619 Global Leadership
855.619 Global Leadership
ED.855.619. Global Leadership. 3 Credits.
ED.855.619. Global Leadership. 3 Credits.
This course explores the nature of leadership in the current global society. Students will analyze the behaviors, practices, characteristics and qualities of effective global leaders across a variety of sectors. Students will understand global competence and learn how to become a globally competent leader.
This course explores the nature of leadership in the current global society. Students will analyze the behaviors, practices, characteristics and qualities of effective global leaders across a variety of sectors. Students will understand global competence and learn how to become a globally competent leader.
813.652 Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis
813.652 Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis
ED.813.652. Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis. 3 Credits.
ED.813.652. Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis. 3 Credits.
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.
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.
881.622 Advanced Instructional Strategies
881.622 Advanced Instructional Strategies
ED.881.622. Advanced Instructional Strategies. 3 Credits.
ED.881.622. Advanced Instructional Strategies. 3 Credits.
Students review recent research on effective instruction and explore advanced classroom strategies and techniques designed to enhance their effectiveness in meeting the needs of diverse populations of learners. Examples include direct instruction, cooperative learning, dimensions of learning, creative problem solving, and applications of technology to thinking and learning. Students develop expert teaching skills and learn to diagnose and deliver instructional strategies that are most appropriate in specific circumstances.
Students review recent research on effective instruction and explore advanced classroom strategies and techniques designed to enhance their effectiveness in meeting the needs of diverse populations of learners. Examples include direct instruction, cooperative learning, dimensions of learning, creative problem solving, and applications of technology to thinking and learning. Students develop expert teaching skills and learn to diagnose and deliver instructional strategies that are most appropriate in specific circumstances.
881.611 Action Research for School Improvement
881.611 Action Research for School Improvement
ED.881.611. Action Research for School Improvement. 3 Credits.
ED.881.611. Action Research for School Improvement. 3 Credits.
Students explore the role of the educator as an action researcher, with special emphasis on formulating and refining research questions as well as on selecting appropriate methodologies for classroom or school-based research. Students review research as a tool for assessing and improving teaching/learning environments.
Students explore the role of the educator as an action researcher, with special emphasis on formulating and refining research questions as well as on selecting appropriate methodologies for classroom or school-based research. Students review research as a tool for assessing and improving teaching/learning environments.
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
ED.855.610. Seminar in Teacher Leadership. 2 - 3 Credits.
ED.855.610. Seminar in Teacher Leadership. 2 - 3 Credits.
Students in the final year present and evaluate their projects and plans for implementing change in their work environments. In addition, participants examine selected topics and current issues in educational leadership.
Students in the final year present and evaluate their projects and plans for implementing change in their work environments. In addition, participants examine selected topics and current issues in educational leadership.
855.600 Extended Learning
855.600 Extended Learning
ED.855.600. Extended Learning. O Credit Learning Experience
ED.855.600. Extended Learning. O Credit Learning Experience
Students will participate in a variety of informal educational experiences, from guest lectures and one-on-one mentor conversations, to exploring how the use of museums, cultural institutions, and other real-world scenarios can be leveraged to promote learning. Students will both learn from these experiences as well as gain exemplars to implement in their own educational systems.
Students will participate in a variety of informal educational experiences, from guest lectures and one-on-one mentor conversations, to exploring how the use of museums, cultural institutions, and other real-world scenarios can be leveraged to promote learning. Students will both learn from these experiences as well as gain exemplars to implement in their own educational systems.
Course Sequence
Course Sequence
Fall
Fall
855.614 Planning a New Venture in Education
855.614 Planning a New Venture in Education
887.615 Explorations in Mind, Brain, and Teaching
887.615 Explorations in Mind, Brain, and Teaching
855.609 Introduction to Entrepreneurship in Education
855.609 Introduction to Entrepreneurship in Education
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
855.600 Extended Learning I
855.600 Extended Learning I
Spring
Spring
855.617 Launching a New Venture in Education
855.617 Launching a New Venture in Education
855.619 Global Leadership
855.619 Global Leadership
813.652 Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis
813.652 Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis
881.622 Advanced Instructional Strategies
881.622 Advanced Instructional Strategies
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
855.601 Extended Learning II
855.601 Extended Learning II
Summer
Summer
855.618 The Sustainable Venture
855.618 The Sustainable Venture
881.611 Action Research for School Improvement
881.611 Action Research for School Improvement
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership
855.610 Seminar in Teacher Leadership