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
Winter 2004 Pasadena
DESCRIPTION:
An
overview of leadership development focusing on design and evaluation of
training models that have 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.