2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

EDUT 5283 An Exceptional Teaching Team

Building and Sustaining an Exceptional Teaching Team

In this course, you’ll discover best practices for attracting, hiring, coaching, and nurturing excellent teachers. You’ll learn how to find the best applicants for your positions and assess whether applicants are a good fit for a position. For your existing staff, you’ll review strategies for making good teachers into great ones, including conducting effective observations, providing meaningful coaching, and helping teachers set and meet goals that are important to them. Finally, you’ll take a deep dive into the issue of burnout, including how to prevent it and how to intervene when teachers show signs of wanting to quit. By investing your time in this course, you will be able to proactively build and keep a great staff for years to come, saving yourself time and headaches down the road.

Credits

1-3