Leading Teams and Fostering Learning Communities

0.5 Course Units

This module is designed to help students learn what is known about teams and team leadership. It will be both research and case based. Drawing on the research literature, it will help students understand the nature of the different kinds of work teams are asked to do and how teams may be structured for effectiveness, depending on their objectives. Students will be asked to examine cases that reflect different objectives and different designs. Through a field-based assignment and other experiential learning opportunities, particular emphasis will be given to the various kinds of teams and groups principals, heads of schools, superintendents and others associated with the educational enterprise must work with and lead. Summer Term 0.5 Course Units