The Teacher Leader in a Professional Learning Community

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This course will address the responsibilities of teachers as team leaders, with special emphasis on the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work in teams to improve student learning. Candidates will analyze and synthesize Biblical and theoretical principles and practical understandings of the complex roles and responsibilities of a team leader in engendering organization commitment, resolving conflict, applying current research as it applies to team leadership, facilitating committee work, building communication skills, planning for student leadership and developing and sustaining professional learning communities.