CHLD 54A: DEVELOPING A HEALTHY ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE IN EDUCATION
Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading | Value |
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Effective Term: | Summer 2022 |
Units: | 1 |
Hours: | 1 lecture per week (12 total per quarter) |
Degree & Credit Status: | Degree-Applicable Credit Course |
Foothill GE: | Non-GE |
Transferable: | CSU |
Grade Type: | Letter Grade Only |
Repeatability: | Not Repeatable |
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of the different dimensions that contribute to a school's work climate.
- Develop practical strategies for creating an excellent work place climate.
Description
Investigation and analysis of the ten dimensions of organizational climate which help shape the quality of work life for educators. Students will assess the organizational climate of their own education programs and develop specific strategies to create an excellent workplace. Discussion of unique role perspective plays in shaping work attitudes and behavior.
Course Objectives
The student will be able to:
- demonstrate understanding of the different dimensions that contribute to a school's work climate.
- recognize that perceptions vary depending on a person's role, deeply held values, and previous experiences.
- collect data to measure and monitor a school's organizational climate.
- implement practical strategies for creating an excellent workplace climate.
- discuss the unique and important role that educational leaders play to ensure success.
Course Content
- Demonstrate understanding of the different dimensions that contribute to a school's work climate
- Collegiality
- Professional growth
- Supervisor support
- Clarity
- Reward system
- Decision making
- Goal consensus
- Task orientation
- Physical setting
- Innovativeness
- Recognize that perceptions vary depending on a person's role, deeply held values, and previous experiences
- Egocentric perspective
- Allocentric perspective
- Macro-centric perspective
- Leader's perspective vs. teacher's perspective
- Collect data to measure and monitor a school's organizational climate
- Using the Early Childhood Work Environment Survey
- Implement practical strategies for creating an excellent work place climate
- Instill norms of continuous improvement
- Nurture collegial spirit
- Implement high-impact professional development
- Reflection and feedback
- Clarity in policies and procedures
- New options for rewards and recognition
- Expand teachers' decision-making influence
- Strengthen focus on mission and vision
- Manage and protect time
- Address adult needs in the physical environment
- Address opportunities for creativity and innovation
- Discuss the unique and important role that educational leaders play to ensure success
- Develop leadership strategies to strengthen the educational program and create and excellent workplace
Lab Content
Not applicable.
Special Facilities and/or Equipment
When taught via Foothill Global Access: on-going access to computer with JavaScript-enabled internet browsing software, media plug-ins, and relevant computer applications.
Method(s) of Evaluation
Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:
Oral presentations
Contributions to class discussions
Cooperative learning assignments
Creative writing
Computational work such as student's survey assessments of their own educational program
Method(s) of Instruction
Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:
Lecture presentations and classroom discussion
Group presentations followed by in-class discussion and evaluation
Representative Text(s) and Other Materials
Bloom, Paula Jorde, Ann Hentschel, and Jill Bella. A Great Place to Work: Creating a Healthy Organizational Climate. 2016.
Text is the basis for the course and is the newest edition; it remains relevant.
Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments
- Reading and study of the text
- Reaction writing assignments to lecture and activities conducted in class
Discipline(s)
Child Development/Early Childhood Education