Curriculum and Instruction (M.Ed.)
This option is designed for professional educators who seek to enhance their competence in curriculum design and implementation, both on a classroom and a systemic level. The requirements are sufficiently flexible to permit elementary teachers and teachers with subject-area concentrations (e.g., mathematics, science, history, English), or to enable those with supervisory interests, to improve their skills in curriculum development and instruction. The *Individualized Area option is also available for non-certified applicants outside the K-12 system.
Prerequisites: Teacher certification as well as a minimum of 18 months of verified satisfactory full-time experience in education prior to awarding of degree.
Curriculum and Instruction
Basic Courses
| EDUC 501 | Statistics in Writing | 4 |
| EDUC 561 | Introduction to Educational Research | 4 |
| RELT 566 | Issues in Religion and Culture | 3 |
| SPED 510 | Introduction to Special Education and Inclusive Classrooms | 4 |
Curriculum and Instruction Core
| EDAD 539 | Supervision of Instruction, K-12 | 4 |
| EDAD 547 | Effective Schools | 3 |
| EDUC 505 | Elementary Classroom Organization and Management | 3 |
| EDUC 556 | Curriculum Planning | 3 |
| EDCI 540 | 21st Century Teaching and Learning | 3 |
| Approved Electives* | 12 |
Professional Project
| EDUC 581 | Professional Project | 5 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 48 |
*Electives must be chosen in consultation with the student's advisor.
Professional Education Electives (3-12)
Courses from any department will satisfy the intent of the term "professional education" if the emphasis is on instructional learning principles, pupil characteristics, teaching methodology, curriculum materials or the roles of various school personnel.
Academic Content Electives (0-3)
Academic content courses are found in departments other than Education and Psychology and must be in approved subjects clearly related to the teaching areas chosen by then student.