Administrative Practicum Part II: Organizational Management –

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(1 credit)

This practicum experience provides comprehensive field-based training designed to develop competencies needed by school principals with an emphasis on organizational management. Application of all principles and techniques of planning, managing, leadership, problem solving, organizing, human resource management, and budgeting will be addressed.

This graduate-level course is 3 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

Organizational Planning
- Examine various organizational models for schools and districts.
- Examine organizational structures for decision making.
- Facilitate various decision-making and/or advisory committees or teams.
- Analyze processes for designing a school improvement plan.
- Evaluate current best practices and research as it relates to school improvement.
- Assess the importance of the shared decision-making process as it relates to leading change initiatives.
- Analyze state and federal laws, district policies, and school procedures as they relate to organizational planning.
Human Resources
- Analyze the processes of recruitment, inventory, hiring, induction, supervision, and employee dismissal.
- Evaluate the characteristics of effective, high-quality induction programs.
- Examine successful staff development strategies.
- Analyze staff evaluation procedures.
- Assess how human relations impact the school environment.
Fiscal Operations
- Evaluate the process of planning and managing site budgets.
- Identify the various staff configurations and duties of a site committee.
- Analyze funding sources of a school and a district.
- Examine means to secure additional outside financial resources for schools and/or districts.
- Analyze inventory management procedures.
- Evaluate the importance of ethics in fiscal operations.

The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Administrative Practicum Part II: Organizational Management –

eda594bca

Organizational Planning

Human Resources

Fiscal Operations

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