Guidelines for Leadership Education Learning Community

News! Please visit the GLEP/LC Wiki The GLEP/LC invites new members, especially from outside North America, to join this learning community.

Leader: Steve Ritch
Director, Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership
University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
ritch@stpt.usf.edu

Thirty-eight ILA members are currently working together to develop guidelines for post-secondary leadership education programs.

Understanding there is a breadth of knowledge and experience within the ILA membership, the LC is using a Wiki to collaboratively create an online handbook of resources that will be useful for anyone starting, re-organizing or evaluating a campus-based Leadership Education Program.

While this LC is new, the group has been working together for almost two years. A Learning Lab held at the Chicago 2006 ILA conference focused on identifying the questions essential to the development of leadership education programs at postsecondary institutions. The team decided to become a formal Learning Community with the goal of creating a handbook to address these questions.

The GLEP/LC Guidelines handbook will be organized into the following five sections:

• Conceptual Framework: Clearly identify a leadership program’s conceptual framework, including underlying theories and philosophy, mission statement, goals and learning objectives

• Teaching and Learning: Address the who, what, when, where, why, and how of teaching and learning

• Context: Enable programs to understand the multiple sectors, audiences and disciplines that teach and practice leadership, and how these contexts affect the subject matter of the other sections in the guidelines

• Content: Describe program content based on knowledge of the field, contexts and conceptual frameworks

• Outcomes and Assessment: Identify outcomes of the program and appropriate processes for assessment

The leadership team for each section has developed suggested topics for the section.  If you are interested in contributing to these guidelines by writing an article for one of the sections, please visit our online WIKI and contact the section leader.
 

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