​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Professional Development Courses​

Advanced Mazza Summer Institute: Children's Picture Story Books: Windows on the World

EDSP 648

​​​​Since the Mazza Institute’s agenda changes each year, participants may take the institute twice at the graduate level. Candidates in the advanced institute will also prepare a break-out session for the following year’s institute, allowing them to become educational leaders.

Being an Educational Leader

EDUC 500

​​​ Characteristics of the educational leader, the importance of self-reflection and one's role as an educational leader in the profession will be examined in this course.

Curriculum & Instruction

EDAD 570

​​ The course provides an examination of past and present curriculum practices, major groups and individuals in society who influence curriculum, trends, and innovations in curriculum, approaches to evaluation of curriculum experiences, professional techniques of curriculum development and the role of pupils, teachers, administrators, parents and other groups in shaping curriculum.

Curriculum and Instruction for Online Learners

EDFI 565

​​​​Graduate students in this course will design and implement online learning experiences that employ effective online instructional and collaborative learning strategies to maximize, maintain and management teacher and student use of online digital tools in technology-rich learning environments.

Differentiated Instruction

EDSP 615

​ This course will provide an overview to the application of differentiated instruction for all grade levels while focusing on the state and national standards. Candidates will be required to keep logs/journals, prepare materials, assignments and assessments and analyze the classroom, their students and their instruction using multiple criteria. 

Educational Law

EDAD 578

​​​​This course includes a study of legislation, interpretation and court decisions affecting the administration of public schools.

Educational Leader as a Change Agent

EDUC 541

​​​ Educational leaders are challenged to maintain performance in a positive manner under radically changing conditions such as organizational restructuring, budget cuts, state and federal educational standards and legal mandates. This course will look at how the educational leader can effectively manage his/her responsibilities while providing leadership for peers during system change involving risk.

Educational Leaders as Mentors

EDSP 633

​​​Candidates will learn ways to use knowledge of professional standards, including the Standards for Ohio Educators, to support teachers' professional growth. The research foundation for the course will be drawn from Invitational Theory and Practice, Social-Emotional Learning and the adult education literature. 

Evidence-informed Decision Making

EDSP 632

​​​This course is designed to foster evidence-informed decision making for the teacher leader. Students will work collaboratively to develop high-quality assessments, analyze student data, implement differentiated instruction and respond to intervention.

Increased Effectiveness through Professional Coaching

EDUC 655

​​This course will focus on the theory and practice of professional coaching as a means for helping individuals at all organizational levels enhance their professional skills and improve their performance. 

Increasing Effectiveness through Principle-Centered Leadership

EDUC 650

​​​​This course will be taught utilizing The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People program, which will provide a holistic, integrated approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

Internship in Administrative Tasks

EDAD 582

​​​​​This course provides students the opportunity to work in school administration in a public school environment under the joint supervision of a licensed school administrator and The University of Findlay.

Internship: Reading Endorsement

EDFI 655

​​This course is designed for candidates for the reading endorsement to complete 67 of the 100 Ohio Department of Education’s required clock hours of supervised fieldwork in two of three grade bands (K-4, 4-7, 7-12). 

Literacy & Special Needs Population

EDFI 535

​​This course combines developmentally appropriate literacy instruction, strategies and assessments that apply to special education. 

Literary Assessment, Curriculum Alignment and Data Analysis

EDFI 650

​​​This field-based course allows candidates to examine district grade level data, work with a literacy specialist to examine the process of short cycle assessment, progress monitoring, data analysis and curriculum alignment, attend grade-level meetings where teachers analyze their literacy assessment data and learn how to enter assessment data into a technology system​​ used in Ohio. 

Mazza Summer Institute: Children's Picture Story Books: Windows on the World

EDSP 548

​​​ This course is designed to expose teachers, librarians and other community partners to the rich resources for teaching and learning to be found in children’s picture books. The institute consists of keynote speeches by well-known and up-and-coming writers and illustrators of children’s picture books, as well as juried break-out sessions featuring a variety of related topics.

Organization & Administration of Special Education

EDAD 584

​​​​​This course provides school administrators with information and skills to apply special education laws and policies to situations that will be encountered in schools and districts.

School Finances & Resources

EDAD 576

​​ This course will examine the principles and issues of public school finance. Revenues, expenditures, indebtedness and procedures for sound fiscal management are explored.

Student Personnel Services

EDAD 572

​​ This course provides school administrators with information and skills to effectively organize, manage and provide leadership for the programs, departments and agencies that are associated with student personnel services.

Supervision & Professional Development

EDAD 574

​​​​​ The course includes recruitment, selection, evaluation and professional development necessary to elevate classroom instruction in your school​.

Technology & Assessment for Administrator

EDAD 586

​​​​This course provides students the opportunity to understand and build database systems that will help them better manage data. Topics included will be basic computer skills for personal and professional management, building databases for a variety of purposes, making professional presentations, assessing P-12 student learning, developing budget projections and tracking student discipline. 

The Leader: Facilitator of Innovation and Strategic Management

EDSP 630

​​ Learn about  leadership theories, models and strategies that have laid the foundation for the evolution of many leadership practices that exist today. Areas of emphasis will be leadership and strategic management, innovation and creative process, creative problem solving and decision making, strategic planning and organizing, continuous improvement and team building and group dynamics. 

The Principalship

EDAD 568

​​​ This is an introductory course which will address the history, roles, and responsibilities of a principal.

Topics in Reading Education

EDFI 665

​​​This course will provide teachers specializing in reading education with an opportunity for in-depth study of a variety of topics related to teaching reading and writing. Special emphasis will be on encouraging participants to identify and address their own individual interests and needs.

Training and Development in Organizations

EDHR 641

​The purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of the human resource professional in training and development, relationships between training and development and other organizational structures and the principles of training design.