Collection Development Guide: Organization, Workforce, and Leadership Studies: Home

Classroom/Environmental safety
Teaching ethics
Learning theory     
Communication theory
Factors that Influence Human Performance
Motivation and Performance
Human Performance Technology
Effective teaching
     -Teaching ethics
     -Didactic vs. evocative
Evaluation & assessment
     -needs assessments
Psychology of Teachers
Psychology of Students
Teacher/Student relationship/rapport
     -Improving teaching techniques: visual aids, use of technology, voice, gestures
Curriculum: history, development of
Leadership
     types/styles/models, characteristics/behaviors
     ethics
     human resources
     organizational control, change, performance
     organizational structures: youth, business
     planning or organizing meetings & activities for prof dev
Workplace violence
Occupational/organizational/workplace stress
Teacher organizations
Work-based learning (WBL)
Portfolio use as assessment/development
Self-management
Internships/Apprenticeships/Student teaching/Work-to-School programs
Teacher characteristics/personalities
Quality Movement/TQM     
     types: descriptive, developmental, case & field study    
     how-to’s, types of data (primary vs. secondary)
Cooperative education     
     importance of & foundations    
     history    
     purpose
Occupational advising/counseling     
     secondary & adult
Nontraditional education     
     -philosophy     
     -history
Process of learning     
     -types/modes/principles    
     -learning styles
Curriculum material management/planning     
     -modification     
     -lesson planning
Career & Technology Education (Vocational Education)     
     -becoming certified to teach high school business education    
     -managing a business education program
CATE     
     -Agricultural Science    
     -Business Education    
     -Career guidance & Counseling    
     -Family & Consumer Science    
     -Health Science Technology    
     -Marketing Education  
     -Technology Education    
     -Trade & Industrial Education

The OWLS program at Texas State University prepares nontraditional students for careers through high-quality academic, professional and technical programs. Our programs grant credit for experiential learning such as work/life experience; credit for non-collegiate instruction; and credit by exam.

We offer one undergraduate degree — the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences and two graduate degrees — the Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies (MSIS) and the Master of Education with a Major in Management of Technical Education (MEd).

Target Dates: One third of department's allocation must be spent by each of the following dates:

691 Department Code: 46