Syllabus

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership (Ed.D.)

EDU 811- Diagnosing Organizational Dynamics – Fall 2015 A

Credits - 3

Description

Transformative leaders are successful in diagnosing and interacting with both internal and external forces affecting the organizational environment. This includes socio-cultural factors, poverty, family situations, and heath. Candidates analyze case studies of effective and ineffective individual, group, and organizational dynamics that drive and restrain change processes. Appropriate interventional strategies are considered.

Materials

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives

This course is designed to support change agents in evaluating and supporting continuous, transformative organizational development. Students will utilize organization development and transformative leadership literature to illustrate critical attributes associated with their leadership development and their experiences facilitating transformative change.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)

1. Identify and implement multiple forms of communication to explain the current status of the case study scenario to diverse stakeholders
2. Identify and describe specific change leadership strategies and organizational processes to facilitate commitment to continuous, transformational change
3. Describe and provide rationale for strategies to engage change initiative stakeholders
4. Create, in collaboration with stakeholders, a strategic continuous improvement plan that addresses the current change initiative challenges, successes, and/or refocus
5. Use multiple frames of analyses, along with practice, research and data, to illustrate ongoing transformative leadership development
6. Critically assess and provide peer review feedback and coaching to improve and refine leadership development and research skills

Assignments

Study Group Discussion Boards

Each member of your group will start by reading at least one chapter from the OD Reader. Each member will write an annotation of the chapter read, and post the annotation to the group Discussion Board by Friday. You should then read each annotation posted. Next, you will select and read at least one of the chapters annotated by another student.  Once you have read the additional chapter you will need to write a reflection back to the original reader.

Whole Class Discussion Boards

Each member of the class will respond to a prompt which will be a reflection on a video or reading. Next, you will read and respond to at least two classmates’ posts.

Historical Leaders in the Field PowerPoint

You will research and present on 5 historical leaders from your field of study and present the information in a 12 – 15 slide PowerPoint presentation (not including title or reference pages). 

Transformative Learning Reflection, Credo and Professional Development Plan

This assignment is designed to support a critical analysis of your development as a transformative leader reflecting on at least three of the Shield’s tenets. To complete this assignment, use multiple data sources for analysis to document your development as a transformative leader. Identify your essential commitments to transformative leadership and craft a leadership credo. To culminate this assignment, create a “next steps” plan to inform your ongoing leadership development.

This assignment has three major components. The first part, the Artifact, will be submitted in your Study Group Discussion Board in Week 4. Parts 2 and 3 are submitted as a single assignment in Week 5.

1. Data collection, analysis and documentation (Evidenced in survey) and Representation of TL development
2. Leadership credo
3. TL Professional development plan

Case Study Assignment: Organizational Change

This final assignment will allow you to take what you have learned in your leadership studies and apply it to a real-world scenario.

Grading Policy

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

Grade Breakdown

Assignment	Points
Study Group Discussion Board (7 threads)	28 points (4 each)
Whole Class Discussion Board (4 threads)	16 points (4 each)
Historical Leaders in the Field PowerPoint	20 points
Transformative Leadership Artifact	6 points
Transformative Learning Reflection, Credo and Professional Development Plan	10 points
Case Study Assignment	20 points

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;
• Pass (P): Work that meets all requirements and expectations as specified in assignments, and is fully satisfactory in every respect;
• Low Pass (LP): Work is deemed unsatisfactory.

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. See the appendices for grading rubrics. Please note that you must save all submitted documents in Microsoft Word 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; Purdue OWL is an excellent, user-friendly resource).