Syllabus

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

EDU 805 Managing Change (Spring A)

Credits - 3

Description

This course exposes students to critical competencies (attitudes, knowledge, skills) needed by leaders to create the conditions for systematic and productive change, and to facilitate the process of introducing and sustaining innovation with maximum collaboration and minimum disruption. Also considered are various perspectives on how organizations function, and how individuals and groups within those settings can interact to achieve organizational goals for planned, purposeful change.

Materials

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

1. Analyze how organizations, groups, and individuals respond to the disruptive nature of change and demonstrate approaches to creating conditions that support innovation.
2. Identify and align leadership and organizational change theories to inform recommended actions.
3. Use multiple frames of analyses along with practice, research, and data to critically reflect on transformative leadership development.
4. Analyze the effectiveness and application of leadership theory and how theory influences change.
5. Examine how an individual’s attributes and leadership qualities influence and affect behavior and change management.
6. Craft a succinct “Problem of Practice” to investigate and study.

Assignments

Discussion Forums: Actively participate in 8 interactive discussions with the entire class (as well as in a small group), providing original posts and responses to classmates’ posts. An initial post to the prompt is due by midnight on the day indicated on the prompt. The minimum number of substantive, meaningful responses you should make before the response is due is two. If you are aiming for a High Pass in the course, you should go significantly beyond minimum expectations. For this and all other discussions, please limit the initial post to 750 words and the follow-up response(s) to 500 words.

Case Study: Critique and analyze a case study discussing leadership and change.

Site Description: Write an essay in which you describe an organization/institution in order to understand its history, current practices and goals.

SWOT Analysis: Complete a SWOT analysis of your institution/organization.

Problem of Practice (draft and final assignment): Prepare and present a thorough Problem of Practice Draft. Share your draft with classmates in order to engage in providing and receiving a peer review. After which you will develop a formal paper, investigating the historical and current developments and needs of an institution, its significance, and relevance.

Note: The University of New England provides students, staff, and faculty with free access to RefWorks, a fantastic tool for collecting and managing references and making style-correct citations.

Grading Policy

Your grade in this course will be determined by the following criteria:

Grade Breakdown

Grading

The criteria for all courses in the Ed. D. program are described in the modules and/or rubrics. Assignments will include guidelines with rubrics, descriptions of expectations, or examples, and include point values. Coursework will be assessed and graded using individual evaluation protocols that are provided for the three major assignments. Final “grades” will reflect the following schema:

• High Pass (HP): Work that exceeds all or most of the criteria of the respective assignment. To receive a high pass the work must demonstrate exceptional command and display of all or most required elements (95 – 100);
• Pass (P): Work that meets all requirements and expectations as specified in assignments, and is fully satisfactory in every respect (80 – 94);
• Low Pass (LP): Work is deemed unsatisfactory (70 – 79).

Grade Scale: 95 = HP; 80-94 = P; 70-79 = LP

Note** The instructor will determine if an assignment may be revised and resubmitted for rescoring. Candidates may proceed to subsequent courses in the curriculum with one LP grade, and although there is no failing grade, a second LP course grade results in termination from the doctoral program.

All assignments are to be completed in a timely manner with appropriate accuracy, detail, thought, and reflection fitting of doctoral-level degree candidates. All assignments (done in writing or with other media applications) are graded on the basis of faculty assessment of your ability to accurately apply concepts from readings, organization, and mechanics. Please note that you must save all submitted documents in Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint in order for them to transmit successfully. All work must be properly identified and include author(s)’ name(s). Submit all written work in APA style (Refer to the APA Publication Manual for guidance and Help with Citations on UNE Library Services web page under Research Help).