EDUC 381 - Leadership, Advocacy, and Resilience

5 Credits

In this course you’ll work with your peers to explore and develop your own leadership style. You’ll look at current issues and trends in our field, analyzing and evaluating options for action and advocacy. Recognizing that our personal well being is critical to our ability to serve children, families, and our community, you’ll also create a plan to promote emotional resilience.

Pre-requisite(s) EDUC& 115, EDUC& 130, ECED& 160, EDUC& 204 (min 2.0 in each); and EDUC 240
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Evening, Online, Weekend

Designed to Serve BAS in Early Childhood Education
Active Date 20220330T15:33:42

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Create common definitions of leadership, advocacy, resilience.
Communication strategies including models of conflict negotiation and problem solving.
Explore models of leadership. How are these impacted by social identities?
Current trends and challenges in our field. How can we apply an equity lens to solutions?
Public policies and standards - how are they created? Where are the places that we have influence?
Explore a variety of professional dilemmas related to leadership and advocacy.
Create a personal wellness plan.

Student Learning Outcomes
Compare a variety of leadership models, describing how culture and personal values impact leadership choices.

Explore and describe broad contexts, challenges, issues, and trends that affect the profession.

Demonstrate effective cross-cultural communication and leadership.

Formulate strategies to effectively advocate for children, families, and the profession during the development process of public policies and standards.

Analyze and resolve dilemmas related to leadership and advocacy using professional standards, experience, and ethics.

Formulate a self-care and personal wellness plan based on strategies related to the science of resiliency.