Attachment “F”
Field Experiences
EDL 8710: Vision and Governance
School Climate Project: Examine the climate and culture of your school and school
district. Identify 3 or more empirical climate assessment instruments. Select the most
appropriate and, with your principal’s permission, conduct a study of your school’s
climate. Focusing on both the immediate and larger context of the school and based on
your findings, identify ways the climate could be changed to promote a climate that
fosters student learning. Employ a scale of moving from cooperation to coordination then
to collaboration. For schools/districts with existing processes for climate evaluation,
evaluate the existing plan after you administer the climate survey. As a follow-up to the
climate survey, develop an action plan with a school and/or district team to lead change
in areas identified through the use of the climate instrument. The action plan will contain
a vision statement developed (if none currently exists) or modified from the existing one
that reflects the results from the climate survey. Describe specifically how the vision will
be articulated and stewarded. Focus particularly on measuring the extent to which the
school environment promotes an understanding and advocacy for meeting the needs of
students and families of diversity and how families and the community will be involved
in the formulation and delivery of the action plan. (Field Experience Activity)
EDL 8720: Managing the Physical and Fiscal Environment
Five Year Facility Plan: This Five Year Facility Plan activity will extend through an
entire semester and is intended to be an activity performed at the school district level. The
plan is a mandate from Georgia Department of Education. Every school district is
required to develop one in every five years. An update of the plan needs to be done every
year. District personnel involved in this activity includes Assistant Superintendent of
School Business, School Facility Director, Purchasing Director, Finance Director,
Community Relations Director and School Maintenance Director. The purpose of the
activity is for candidates to become familiar with the Five Year Facility Plan and how it
relates to the improvement of educational facilities in the school district. Furnish full
report of the investigation. (Field Experience Activity)
EDL 8730: Curriculum, Assessment & Instruction
Action Plan Derived from Curriculum Audit and Analysis of Work Samples
(Curriculum): Based on the information derived from the curriculum audit, the
candidate will develop a year-long action plan to meet the needs of marginalized
students. (Field Experience Activity)
Curriculum Audit (Assessment): The purpose of this activity to for candidates to
develop a research-based understanding of curriculum development. The candidate will
collaborate with teachers and/or administrators to review and evaluate the development
and implementation of the curriculum in a particular area or across the curriculum and
with special attention to addressing diversity. The candidate will employ consensus and
group collaboration skills. (Field Experience Activity)
Analysis of Student Work Samples (Instruction): Candidate will develop and
facilitate a professional learning group to analyze student work samples by demographic
variables associated with diversity to improve instructional decisions by collecting
evidence that reveals information about student learning and their thinking strategies. The
candidate will lead the group in acquiring or developing a protocol for facilitating the
process. Student work samples can include but are not limited to standardized test data,
classroom assessments, writing samples, projects, oral reports, videotapes, pictures, and
student observation data. (Field Experience Activity)
EDL 8740: Professional Learning
School wide (or System) Professional Development Needs Assessment: The candidate
will conduct a needs assessment to determine school wide professional development
needs and will develop an action plan to meet those needs. The plan will include a SWOT
Analysis to identify and address barriers to leader, faculty and staff performance and to
determine needs for addressing diversity among students and faculty.
(Field Experience Activity)
EDL 8750: Managing Human Resources
Analysis of Recruiting Practices Project
The activities listed below will allow the candidate to examine the various teacher
recruitment programs in the nation and state and to become knowledgeable of “best
practices” being used in school districts. The candidate will develop the skills and
dispositions needed to develop recruitment programs that include provisions for attracting
teachers who represent diverse populations and who have the experience and
understanding to demonstrate culturally responsive practice. (Field Experience Activity)
Strategic Human Resource Planning Project
This series of activities is designed to offer experiences in areas of human resources
planning that improve the candidate’s knowledge, skills and dispositions in the areas of
planning to include succession, employee placement, and employee performance. (Field
Experience Activity)
Compensation Programs Project
This project is intended to familiarize the candidate with the significance of
compensation for employees as it applies to teacher satisfaction, increased student
achievement, and employee retention. (Field Experience Activity)