MEd: Elementary Education

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Concentration Options

Become a distinguished educator through your uniquely designed graduate program

Educators are creative and unique. Rather than depending on brief, disconnected professional development days in your school, become a designer of your destiny. Take a deep dive into areas of knowledge and skills of your profession designed to impact your educational practice. Do you feel you need to know more about how to support your students with disabilities? Your language learners? Do you find yourself in a counseling role more and more and want to learn about how character education might improve classroom climate? Do you want to test the waters in educational leadership to see if administration is in your future?

Within the Master’s degree in Elementary Education several Concentration areas provide focus on high-leverage problems of practice such as designing curriculum, special education, social justice, leadership, and assessment. Two linked concentrations will support a journey to literary specialist. Come join us for collaborative dialogue on the exciting challenges around education in the 21st century!

You will have the opportunity to engage in Action Research within your own classroom or educational work settings, identifying problems of practice and collecting and analyzing data to make things better for learners. As one of the largest programs in the state, the College of Education boasts a strong research and teaching faculty recognized by national reviews for high productivity.

The M.Ed. consists of three foundation courses, two concentrations, and two teacher research courses that build on your strengths or strengthen areas that build your educator effectiveness. Each person can find the educational opportunities that impact student learning and increase the capacity for leading. Three concentrations provide opportunities for courses that lead to a certificate in an emphasis area.

• Supporting Language Learners: TESOL Concentration I
• Supporting Language Learners: TESOL Concentration II (DESE TESOL Endorsement)
• Literacy Concentrations I
• Literacy Concentrations II
• Curriculum and Instruction Concentration
• Special Education Concentration
• Social Justice Issues Concentration
• Leadership in Education Concentration
• STEM Concentration
• Discipline Content Area Concentration
• Elective Concentration
• Early Childhood Concentration I
• Early Childhood Concentration II