Course Details

1. Analyze and compare various ways of organizing the school environment
2. Investigate and criticize pedagogical theories and their impact on school environment and student outcomes
3. Describe and evaluate the ways by which the school environment (equipment, facilities) impact student and teacher outcomes
4. Assess Cyprus’ educational system and compare it to effective educational systems around the world
5. Identify the most effective principles of classroom management
6. Describe schools as social systems and elaborate on how inputs are transformed into outputs.
7. Enumerate and criticize school factors impacting school culture and climate.

The school as a social system: Definitions of theory and science, the theory of social systems, logical-natural-open systems, principles of open systems, characteristics of social systems, the school as a social system.

Teachers and Facilities: relationship between teachers’ professional experience and credentials and teacher effectiveness, how school facilities affect student and teacher outcomes, school and classroom planning and their pedagogical consequences.

School organization and climate: Student and teacher needs, theories of needs, achievement and motivation, school culture and climate, classroom management, bullying.

• Instructor’s set of class notes

Lectures

Computer Presentations

Group discussion on case studies

Materials posted online (e-learning).