MS Education brochure

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.