Comprehensive Exam Worksheet
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MS Educational Leadership
Developing engaged, caring and skillful educational leaders

Purpose: Demonstrate you are an engaged, caring and skillful educational leader.

Written Paper and Presentation:
Identify problem/opportunity in your workplace
Explore its history
Tell size of problem/opportunity (magnitude), include data
Tell best practice from literature
Propose a solution
            Solution
Timeline/action plan
            Resource request
            Evaluation
Leadership you will offer

Evaluation Criteria: (50% course grade and 100% comp exam pass/fail grade)
Clearly demonstrates achievement of program goals
1. Develop leadership, decision making, legal and ethical skills, and change agent skills;
2. Develop written, oral, and technological communication skills;
3. Understand and appreciate cultural and intellectual diversity;
4. Develop professional practice based on theory and research;
5. Develop skills in integrating and applying knowledge to specific problem solving tasks;
6. Develop requisite skills and attitudes to become lifelong learners.

Due Date:
Draft April 3-10
Final May 1

Two People’s Seminar Projects/Exams
EEL Teacher -- Develop and implement a plan on how you are going to meet your ELL students’ six goals (language acquisition, mastery of 2nd grade content, social and academic needs). Will work with colleagues (kindergarten teacher, ELL/Bilingual teacher, principal, ELL coordinator). Plan will include evaluation components and work samples to demonstrate student learning. It will also discuss the leadership you are offering.

SS Teacher teaching new Leadership II class spring semester --  Develop a scope and sequence for Leadership I and II classes in OASD. Develop then implement curriculum and assessment plan for Leadership II class. In your assessment plan include work samples/examples to demonstrate student learning. Discuss your leadership throughout this project (ie. Did you work with colleagues? What was your leadership style while working with them?)

Sample Outline

  1. Identify problem/opportunity in your workplace – We don’t have enough time in the day to teach everything that needs to be taught according to the standards. Our school goal revolves around increasing student scores in writing. So we need to examine our curriculum to strengthen writing.
  2. Explore its history – Talk about when standards gained popularity and when there became a big push to address them (NCLB, Goals 2000, WI Academic Standards, WKCE, etc.). Talk about how writing instruction occurs now.
  3. Tell size of problem/opportunity (magnitude), include data – Tell your school’s test scores, indicate that there is room for improvement, tell what goal has been set for your school.
  4. Tell best practice from literature – Review best practices in writing instruction. Review curriculum mapping as a vehicle to align curriculum.
  5. Propose a solution
    1. Solution – Utilize curriculum mapping to better understand our current writing curriculum and how it can be strengthened. Organize a professional learning community to learn about curriculum mapping. Create a curriculum map for our writing curriculum. Implement new curriculum. Compare student writing scores (old vs new curriculum). Assess time and stress – do you feel you have more time now?
    2. Timeline/action plan – Jan recruit for professional learning community, Feb/March read Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, April/May create map of our writing curriculum, June write new writing curriculum
    3. Resource request – books (8 copies * $20) $160, video $195, curriculum writing (4 people * 3 days * $160/day) $1,920 TOTAL $2,275
    4. Evaluation – Increases in student writing achievement, less teacher/student/curricular stress
    5. Leadership you will offer – select some theories, comment on your style

Comp Exam “Question” –Using curriculum mapping to improve student writing in grades 4-5.

 

YOUR IDEA

  1. Identify problem/opportunity in your workplace
  2. Explore its history
  3. Tell size of problem/opportunity (magnitude), include data
  4. Tell best practice from literature
  5. Propose a solution
    1. Solution
    2. Timeline/action plan
    3. Resource request
    4. Evaluation
    5. Leadership you will offer

Comp Exam Question ---

 

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