MA Teacher Leadership

Program Objectives and Competencies

Concordia-Chicago’s master of arts in teacher leader will enable graduate candidates to:

• Develop a leadership style to fit diverse populations, situations, and settings.
• Gain knowledge of leadership frameworks and models of shared governance and to understand and use teacher evaluation models.
• Become skilled in building and leading effective teams; including team formation, dynamics, management and growth.
• Become a self-assured and effective instructional coach, taking a mentoring/teaming approach in improvement of classroom instruction.
• Improve instruction through multiple uses of building and district student data, research-based instructional models, and collaboration with colleagues.
• Understand diverse learners (including students with IEP, ELL, underrepresented and at-risk, including the IL Social and Emotional Learning Standards.
• Serve as a facilitator of change within a school system and engage in planning and management of tasks to support change and implement initiatives.
• Work with families, colleagues, building/district leadership, and the larger school community for increased student performance.

Endorsement

The MA in Teacher Leadership includes endorsement from the State of Illinois.