General Division/Undergraduate Catalog

Department of Educational Leadership

Chair: Howard L. Stone, Ed.D., Professor

Location: MCL 505

Telephone: (817) 898-2241

Fax: (817) 898-2224

Please note: TWU's area code (817) will change to 940 on May 25, 1997.

Faculty: Professors J. Fearing, C. Funk, V. Gershner, S. Ivie, P.J. Karr-Kidwell, T. Palmore, F. Roebuck, J. R. Short; Associate Professor J. Barbour; Assistant Visiting Professor D. Cunningham

The Department of Educational Leadership offers no undergraduate degrees. The department offers a foundational component for undergraduate students seeking degrees or certification in various programs within the College Education and Human Ecology. These foundations include instructional technology, measurement, research, and the historical, philosophical, social, behavioral, and developmental bases for learning and instruction. Understanding the diverse needs and characteristics of various populations is also basic to the foundations of education and is reflected in the undergraduate sequences of this department as well as in the graduate programs.

Graduate Courses Administration and Supervision

ELDR 5403. School Organization and Administration

ELDR 5413. Supervision in Education

ELDR 5423. Problems in Supervision

ELDR 5433. The School Principal

ELDR 5623. Women and Careers in Education

ELDR 5703. Educational Planning and Curriculum Management

ELDR 5723. School Business Management and Finance

ELDR 5903. Special Topics

ELDR 5911. Individual Study

ELDR 5913. Individual Study

ELDR 5923. Practicum

ELDR 5943. Seminar

ELDR 5973. Professional Paper

ELDR 5983. Thesis

ELDR 5993. Thesis

ELDR 6103. School Administration Theory and Practice

ELDR 6113. Educational Law

ELDR 6303. Administration of Teacher and Student Personnel

ELDR 6403. Seminar in School Administration

ELDR 6613. Internship for the Principal

ELDR 6663. Internship in School Administration

ELDR 6703. Research Problems in Educational Administration

ELDR 6913. Individual Study

Undergraduate Courses | Educational Foundations

ELDR 3033. The Ethnically and Culturally Different Child. Physical, mental, social, and emotional developmental characteristics of children from various ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. A consideration of the causal factors. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*ELDR 3133. Learning Theory and Educational Measurement. Educational goal setting, testing, and measurement including evaluation of content and student achievement. Application of learning theory to instruction and assessment adapted for special need students. Corequisite: ERDB 3133. Three lecture hours a week, and one and one-half laboratory hours a week. Three hours.

*ELDR 3503. Elementary Classroom Management and Educational Technology. Principles of curriculum organization, instructional and discipline management. Design of instruction to achieve goals and objectives including those required for special populations. Uses of audiovisual equipment and other resources for instruction. Corequisite: ERDB 3103. Three lecture hours a week, and one and one-half laboratory hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

*ELDR 3513. Secondary Classroom Management and Educational Technology. Principles of curriculum organization, instructional and discipline management. Design of instruction to achieve goals and objectives including those required for special populations. Uses of audiovisual equipment and other resources for instruction. Corequisite: ERDB 3153. Three lecture hours a week, and one and one-half laboratory hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ELDR 3643. Bilingual-Bicultural Education. An introduction to the purposes, problems, issues, and trends in bilingual-bicultural education, particularly as it applies to the Mexican-American child of the Southwest. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Two lecture hours and two observation hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ELDR 4913. Independent Study. Supervised individualized studies, content variable. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for three additional hours only.

*TASP and minimum GPA of 2.5 required for enrollment. Twenty-two and one-half hours of Early Field Experience to be completed with this course.

Graduate Courses | Educational Foundations

ELDR 5143. Theories of Learning and Educational Measurement

ELDR 5163. Advanced Adolescent Psychology

ELDR 5203. Research in Education

ELDR 5303. Seminar in Educational Issues

ELDR 5503. Educational Communications and Technology

ELDR 5633. Understanding the Culturally Different Learner

ELDR 5713. Trends and Issues in Adult Education

ELDR 5823. Adult Learning and Development

ELDR 6203. Statistics and Research Methodology I

ELDR 6213. Statistics and Research Methodology II