ML540:
Leadership Training Models (4 units)
Robert Freeman, Associate
Provost for the Horner Center for Lifelong Learning and Assistant Professor of
Distance Learning and Continuing Education
Fall 2003 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
An overview of leadership development
focussing on design and evaluation of training models proven effective for
leader development in mission and ministry.
What is leadership? What do
effective leaders do? How do they
emerge? How can training be best
balanced and fit to an individual? This
course gives you tools to evaluate training using several techniques to analyze
an actual field case.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Do a
detailed analysis of and suggest improvements to a training program using a
systems approach.
• Be familiar with several
philosophical perspectives and definitions regarding leadership, training, and
evaluation.
• Recognize the importance of an
individual's leadership emergence process so that you will analyze the
individuals being trained as well as the training processes in order to see the
"individualized training fit."
• Understand variables affecting the
learner, the training process and desired outcomes using instructional design
models to evaluate both the balance and fit of training.
• Be familiar with several formal,
non-formal and informal models of training that have been used successfully.
COURSE FORMAT:
Methods will include lecture,
small group discussions, and student presentations.
REQUIRED READING:
Students must read 1200 pages from both the required and recommended reading lists. If you have previously read one of the listed books, please select an alternative one.
Conger, Jay A. Learning to Lead. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.
Kirkpatrick, Donald L. Evaluating
Training Programs. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 1994.
Kouzes, James M. and Barry Z. Possner. The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Sanders, J. Oswald. Spiritual Leadership. Moody Press, 1994.
Vella, Jane. Learning to Listen: Learning
to Teach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Brookfield, Stephen D. Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1986.
Clinton, J. Robert. The Making of a
Leader. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1988.
Clinton, J. Robert. Training Models
Manual. Altadena, CA:
Barnabus Publishers, 1998.
Daloz, Laurent A. Effective Teaching and Mentoring.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
1986.
Elliston, Edgar J. Home Grown Leaders. Pasadena:
William Carey Library, 1992.
Ferris, Robert W., ed. Establishing
Ministry Training. Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1995.
Freeman, R. E. Instructional Design: Capturing the
Classroom for Distance Learning. Wheaton, IL: ACCESS, 1994.
Habermas, Ronald & Klaus Issler. Teaching
for Reconciliation. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.
Holland, Fredric L. Theological Education in Context: The Influence of Leadership Training and
Anthropology on Ministry for Church Growth.
Unpublished D.Miss. Dissertation,
McAlister Library, 1978.
Kotter, J. P. A Force for Change: How Leadership
Differs from Management. New
York: Free Press, 1990.
Rothwell, William J. and H. C. Kazanas. Mastering
the Instructional Design. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.
Smith, Patricia L. and Tillman J. Ragan.
Instructional Design. Columbus: Merrill/Prentice Hall, 1999.
Vella, Jane. How Do They Know That They
Know: Evaluating Adult Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
Vella, Jane. Taking Learning To Task:
Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Attend and
participate in all class sessions.
2. Write a 500-word proactive reading
report on each required text.
3. Write a 750-word case study of a
leadership development program.
4. Write a 750-word explanation of the
12 step process of design.
5. Write a
3000-word paper analyzing or designing a real training situation.
PREREQUISITES:
None.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Elective.
FINAL EXAMINATION:
None.