ESAS 720 - Problems and Techniques in Contemporary

3 Credits

520 Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to assist the student to prepare for management of educational organizations and programs. Emphasis will be upon identifying specific problems and developing specific techniques by which to solve them. The student will gain an understanding and application of system analysis as it applies to leadership, organizational systems, communications, and change and sustenance of existing systems; human management and technical skills will be emphasized. Major topics to be explored will be accountability, mainstreaming, teacher stress and burn out, alternative approaches to discipline, drugs and alcohol, declining enrollment, and alternative methods for evaluating teachers and students. The student will be afforded the opportunity for input and to suggest other specific topics of interest.