KARS Data Reports

Administration and Leadership Studies

PROGRAM STANDARDS

1. Students will reflect the highest standards for academic rigor, intellectual inquiry, and professional integrity.

2. Students will have an understanding of how administrators implement curriculum changes, how to evaluate the impact of the curriculum on learning, and how to monitor the process of change.

3. Students will have an understanding of how administrators can influence cognitive learning theory and how this theory can impact an educational organization.

4. Students will understand how administrators can implant technology packages impacts the educational program.

5. Students will understand the principles of adult development, characteristics of adult learners, and apply this knowledge to administering the educational organization.

6. Students will understand exemplary supervisory practices and how to implement these practices in an educational organization.

7. Students will have a broad understanding of research skills and be able to use these skills in assessing and evaluating the educational organization. In addition, students will have a basic understanding of the research skills needed to successfully complete their dissertation.

8. Students will promote ethical standards, will support school and community relations, and will work effectively and ethically with diverse populations of educators and the children, families, and communities they serve.

9. Students can articulate and implement a set of beliefs that will guide the administration of an educational organization.

10. Students can interpret, construct, and implement a financial plan for their educational organization.

11. Students will understand various definitions of leadership. In addition, students will be able to articulate their personal beliefs about leardership as related to their administrative style.

12. Students will have a basic understanding of precedent cases related to school low as they relate to the administration of the organization.

13. Students will collaborate with community members, respond to community interests, and be able to mobilize community resources.

14. Students will understand the components of resolving conflicts within the educational organization.

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