MAE prepares strong education professionals to have an informed understanding of complex learning; the knowledge and skills to promote such learning; and the disposition to advocate effectively for the learning, living, and growth of students, especially those who bring cultural, linguistic, and other diversity to schools. The program coursework challenges educators to analyze and improve their instructional practice to better serve students with diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, as well as students with special needs.
The Curriculum and Instruction Emphasis focuses on teaching and learning in the classroom. The Special Education Emphasis prepares strong professionals who have an informed understanding of what constitutes true learning as well as the knowledge and skills to promote it, and the disposition to work actively toward change when policies or practices negatively impact the learning, living and growth of students with special needs.
A Master of Arts degree in Education can also do the following:
- Afford greater opportunities for local educators to serve as strong professionals through leadership roles.
- Provide teachers with an opportunity to develop advanced pedagogical content knowledge in curriculum and instruction to serve diverse learners in today's classrooms.
- Help certified teachers become outstanding and effective educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students in the schools of this region.
- Assist certified teachers to be effective educators of students with special needs.
- Provide a collegial, supportive and informed environment for those educators working toward their National Board Certification.
- Qualify educators to continue on for a doctoral degree.
Sponsored By
College of Professional Studies > School of Education > Teacher Education Department > Masters in Education Program & Special Education Program
Included Academic Fields
Teacher Education ~ Special Education ~ English as a Second Language ~ Technology ~ Gender Issues ~ Sociopolitical Issues ~ Multicultural Education ~ Research Methodology
Online Components
None
Associated Course Codes
MAE ~ SPED