Poster Presentation - Lessons Learned
Capstone:
- 5 areas of commonality between universities
- Action Research Dissertation- requires additional support from faculty
- Collaboration
- Research that had outcomes that were useful/practical
- Programs needed additional structural support
- Use of non-traditional research, e.g. action research
- What is the difference between action research and the capstone?
Inquiry:
- Projects are centered on university work
- Conceptual- how pieces of inquiry come together, e.g. U of O — elements work together to address change and improvement
- Mix methods
- Language
- Appreciative inquiry (organizational technique, celebrate what works)-working from a distance on a project
- Provide opportunity to practice inquiry
- Inquiry approach not received well by some faculty
- Collaboration is needed
Labs of Practice:
- Something not replicable in the college classroom
- Traditional internships are not necessarily conducive to labs of practice
- Themes-What issues are important to the district, classroom, teacher, etc. was asked of school administrators. Came up with 168 topics. Seems schools are not meeting needs.
- Lab of practice is an internship….#8230; .extend the internship. Internship starts from the first course of the program. Superintendent identifies challenge. Students are trying to make connection between their internship and dissertation.
Core courses:
- Courses and number of credit hours needed vary across universities, but they represent similar approaches.
- Interdisciplinary
- Communication is emphasized
- Small department is found to be both a challenging and ideal situation
- Capstone in part of the core
- Consultation approach to dissertation is done as a team
- Not completing a dissertation may be seen as not ideal by hiring forces
Signature Pedagogy:
- Signatures became localized to individual universities
- A departure from a traditional approach
- Focus on authentic settings
- Included aspects of transformation
- The signature pedagogy was the method used to instruct the cohorts
- What’s at the base of one’s success as an administrator? Collaboration.
- Refine signature pedagogy- create commonalities
Assessment:
- There is no one best way to assess
- What and how we measure and what it really measures?
- Should think about impact…s#8230; social change
- Challenges- how are we measuring the success of the program? Are graduates effective?
- How do we move beyond traditional barriers and structures that do not necessarily engage students or are irrelevant to the community? Starts with data collection, perhaps from superintendents and administrators.
- Who owns the programs? The community.
- Residency…o#8230; on campus or community? Who owns the program?