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ED 75505 Principalship
Fall/Winter, 2001
Everyother Tuesday
Irwin Blumer, Ed.D.
205A Campion
Hall,
Boston
College
phone: (617)
552-1956,
e-mail:
blumer@bc.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00 to 4:30
PM, Wednesday 2:00 to 4:30 PM, 6:30 to 7:30 PM, other times
by appointment.
Course
Description
Requirements
Session Topics and
Assignments
Course Description:
This course in designed to investigate various lenses of
leadership through the use of case study. The structure used
to examine leadership through case study will be the same
format the students will be expected to use when taking
their written comps. In that way, the course will also serve
as preparation for the written comps. Students will be
expected to organize into study groups and work
cooperatively the entire semester on class assignments and
in preparing for the written comps, which will be four hours
in length and will occur the final class session.
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Course Requirements:
Attendance and active participation is expected at all
classes. Students will be graded pass/fail for the
course.
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Session Topics and
Assignments:
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9/11/01
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Introduction to the course and
expectations concerning the course.
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• Students will learn how
to approach a case study and to discuss leadership
through the study of cases.
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• Students will review comp
prep materials to insure that they all fully
understand the expectations for passing written
comps.
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• Students will organize
into study groups and plan a schedule that will
result in total preparedness for the oral comps.
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• Student groups will
discuss how to prepare presentations of the 4
frames of organization discussed in Bolman and
Deal.
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Assignment:Each of 4 groups will
prepare a complete overview of one of Bolman and
Deal's four frames.
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9/25/01
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Discussion of the text How Can I
Fix It? .
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• Groups will present their
overview of each of the four frames and discuss how
they would apply the frames to a case
study.
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Assignment: Case #1, Case #3,
Case #4
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10/9/01
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Students will discuss assigned
cases using the 4 frames and follow up questions as
a basis for their analysis of effective
leadership.
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Assignment: Case #8, Case #10,
Case #17
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10/23/01
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Students will discuss assigned
cases using the 4 frames and follow up questions as
a basis for their analysis of effective
leadership.
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Assignment: Case # 5. Students
will read the case and then write an analysis of
the case using the four frames and follow up
questions as the basis for their analysis. Students
should bring 4 copies of their analysis to
class.
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11/6/01
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Students will critique each
other's written response to case #5 using the
written comp rubric.
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Assignment: Case #6. Students
will read the case and then write an analysis of
the case using the four frames and follow up
questions as the basis for their analysis. Students
should bring 4 copies of their analysis to
class.
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11/20/01
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Students will critique each
other's written response to case #6 using the
written comp rubric.
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12/4/01
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Review and study session for
written comps
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12/11/01
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Four hour written comps taken in
the computer lab
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