MS Education brochure

MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Stout’s online Master of Science in Education will allow you to advance your educational career and instructional experiences and improve your impact on students’ lives. Our flexible, online master’s degree provides professional development to previously or currently licensed teachers to meet their goals in education. The focus of the course work is on the learning, teacher behavior, teaching- learning processes, action research and evaluation. Advance your educational career. Education graduates receive specialized training to work with learners at any level: • Analyze their curriculum. • Assess the role of resilience in student learning and instructional practice. • Evaluate classroom and organizational assessments for student learning and instructional planning. • Understand instructional technology to create innovative and effective courses. ENHANCE YOUR STUDENTS’ CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE

"I loved the program. It was immediately applicable to my classroom and my needs as a teacher. The courses and topics helped me reflect on who I am as a professional and gave me direction in improving myself for my students.”

CHELSEA STEPHENSON M.S. Education graduate

PERSONALIZE YOUR DEGREE

Our 30-credit program is designed to enhance your skills in education, while you work at your own pace. You can personalize your degree and choose course work to promote your professional development goals. • 18 core credits: Focus on teaching and learning and carry out a two-course Action Research project. • 12 elective credits: Select three or four courses within an interest area, with an option to earn a professional certificate or certification.

You can also earn your reading certifications for Reading Teacher Licensure (WI 316) or Reading Specialist Certification (WI 317).

Interest Areas

• Autism Spectrum Disorder Specialist Certificate • Communicating with Emerging Media Certificate • Elementary or Middle School Instructional Strategies • Improving the User Experience Certificate • Instructional Design Certificate • Mathematics Specialist Certificate • Online Professional Development for Educators

Education Core Courses

The core courses will help you reflect on the effectiveness of your own curriculum and assessments and give you practices to improve your students’ resilience. • Assessment for Learning: Learn about assessments to increase student learning and improve instructional decision-making. • Curriculum Development and Instruction: Analyze curriculum theory and practical aspects of curriculum. • Resiliency in Education: Learn about the role of resilience in student learning and instructional practices. • Instructional Analysis: Analyze teaching, while learning about the brain, differentiated instruction, the art and science of teaching and educating with poverty in mind.

ACTION RESEARCH

The two-course Action Research sequence is designed to help you examine your content knowledge and instructional practices to improve student learning. You’ll select a topic of interest, study it and have the opportunity to adjust your own instruction for continuous improvement in your classroom.

“As a parent, coach, and teacher, having the flexibility to get work done on my schedule was tremendously helpful. This program offered me a chance to better my practice and become a more effective, engaging educator. The knowledge and experience I gained will allow me to better deal with noncompliant students, teach with a focus on equity, and better facilitate e-learning and a flipped classroom."

BRIAN EVANS M.S. Education graduate

“I started with the Instructional Design Certificate. This helped me ease into the master’s program. I like the way the courses relate to real life scenarios and to my own teaching and learning experiences. It has provided me with the knowledge and skills to better support the work of our faculty and has allowed me to work effectively with the instructional designer.”

ELIZABETH PHILLIPS M.S. Education graduate

University of Wisconsin-Stout 712 S. Broadway Menomonie, WI 54751

FOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.UWSTOUT.EDU/MS-EDUCATION

PROGRAM DIRECTOR Greg Matthias Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education matthiasg@uwstout.edu 715-232-1206