Seminars
The program includes 3 seminars (total of 6 weekly-hrs.) – two mandatory seminars and one elective seminar, which will serve as a framework for working in small groups and for in-depth reading of professional literature in the programs’ fields of knowledge.
List of seminars taught in the program:
Educational Leadership
Organizational and Managerial Behaviour in a Multicultural Society
Changes and Innovations in Educational Organizations
Development, Application and Evaluation of Technology-Intensive Learning Environments
Workshops
Workshop for Writing an Applied Final Project
Selected Issues in School Management and Event Analysis
Workshops
Workshop for Writing an Applied Final Project
Selected Issues in School Management and Event Analysis
Courses
The Education System in Israel: Policy and Implementation
Arab society in Israel: Implications for School Principal within the Sector
The Arab Education System in Israel: Changes and Transformations
Advanced Research Methods: Quantitative Research
Advanced Research Methods: Qualitative Research
Basic theories in Education Administration
The Human Resource in Education – the Individual, the Group and the Career In Between
The Budget as a Managerial Tool
Administration and Leadership in Islamic Cultures
Advanced Measurement and Evaluation
Computerized School Administration
School and the Community
Legal Issues in Education
Quality Management
Special Needs Students and their Integration into the Education System
Multiculturalism – Social, Cultural and Psychological-Developmental Aspects
The applied final project is a comprehensive academic essay describing a process of learning, researching, and/or developing managerial and pedagogical tools in the field of education. The final project aims to enrich the student professionally and promote developments in schools and the education system as a whole, particularly the Arab education system. During the work on the project, students will summarize, analyze and critically describe an issue or phenomenon to which they have been exposed as part of their educational-teaching practice in the field of professional activity, tangential or relying on the theoretical content worlds of the curriculum.
Students who meet all the following criteria will be able to choose whether to submit a final dissertation or take a final exam:
- Minimum weighted average of 85 in the first year.
- Minimum grade of 85 in the methodology courses: quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- Minimum grade of 90 in the first-year seminar.
- Submitting an application for a final thesis at the beginning of the second year by November 30th at the latest.
Students not meeting all four criteria will be required to take the final exam. The Teaching Committee of the Graduate Studies Unit will consider requests for exceptions.
