Leadership, Management, Leadership and management, Situational leadership, cultural leadership, leadership and crisis management, Conflict, Conflict management, Techniques of conflict management, Case studies.

The aim of this course is to deepen the understanding of the effect of cultural differences on the individual and school life. It is hoped that, with this awareness, leaders will be more equipped to solve possible problems faced at schools as a result of cultural differences and misunderstandings.

The objective of this course is to help those in the position of school leadership or those aspiring to be school leaders enhance their practices by the bringing theory and practice together, reflecting on the research results, differentiating what can be adopted and adapted to their own contexts and why. During the course the features of research such as Bloom?s Taxanomy, Direct Instruction, Multiple Intelligence Theory, the Project Method and Complexity Theory will be examined, and the reasons why some research translates easily into practice while others do not will be discussed. Their relevance to the IB programs will be analysed.

Focusing on the impact of globalization and increasing international interactions on national educational policies, programs and teaching-learning processes, this course will set out by studying foundations, origins and development of international and comparative education. The overall objective of the course is to introduce philosophical underpinnings, vision and mission statements, structure, goal and policies of international educational programs. The course will particularly delve deeper into the IB programs which has proved to be an effective and successful program on an international scale and focus on its structure, learner profiles, curriculum, approaches to teaching and learning, assessment processes, teacher professional development practices and administrative mechanisms. Understanding educational and administrative dynamics, policies and mechanisms adopted and put into use by IB, which is internationally acclaimed for its educational effectiveness and success, will provide educational administrators with substantial conceptual and practical benefits.

The aim of this course is to develop the administrator potential of learners with System Thinking approach within the scope of Education Management and Supervision. The course will offer those learners different perspectives in universal level. Systems thinking approach focuses on improving the skills of school administrators for seeing the big picture, understanding the complex problem, finding out relationships and causal loops between system elements, recognizing problems, finding high leverage alternative solutions.

This course aims to introduce formative and summative concepts, principles and techniques in line with educational management and supervision to check the national and international quality standards and to develop students? skills to understand the role of testing and assessment in the instructional process, and to administer tests and assessments properly, in harmony with the statistical concepts used in social sciences. Another objective of this course is to help students learn and comprehend the application of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.

This course has been designed to help educational leaders and professionals to develop their professional thinking and practice, and enhance the quality of teaching and learning and leadership processes. It is expected to explore and apply new ideas in their own context, integrate new approaches in their own practice, and demonstrate their professional development as reflective practitioners. Course also examines where contemporary ideas come from and how school administrators and educational professionals moderate and foster contemporary processes; provides insights for educational innovation projects as well as tools and techniques of managing innovation.

Science, Scientific method and basic concepts of research, Types of research: Basic research, Applied research; Steps of research, Report writing in research, Models of research: Survey method, Test method; Techniques of research.

In this course, each student will present an accepted thesis with its different aspects in terms of methodology and statistics. Moreover, students will be able to discuss presentations and findings of thesis in a discussion group by investigating statistical aspects.

This course involves the research of a topic from start to finish and the learning of abilities relating to this process. According to this, initially a research question will be determined with an advisor followed by a scan of literatüre and a unique hypothesis and research pattern will be established in light of the methods used during the research of this question as seen in literature and the deficiencies observed in these. Later data will be collected in relation to this research pattern and a thesis will be prepared including the subjects theoretical basis, method, results and evaluation of these results.

The value of the child, children in the social history, culture of the child, intercultural studies and the child, parent education studies, media, school and social culture, policies and values related to the child, participation of the child, children's rights, controversial issues-problem areas (child abuse and neglect, employee children, violence in education, etc.) will be examined and discussed in light of relevant theories and empirical researches.