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Nov 20, 2009
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Master of Science in Education -School Educator Concentration
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The School Educators concentration is designed both for practicing classroom teachers seeking to improve their skills and upgrade their qualifications or certification, and for professionals in other fields desiring a career change into teaching. Their main focus is on the classroom itself, and their primary goal is to increase instructional effectiveness in achieving desired learning outcomes, for adolescents and adults alike.
Most courses use two general approaches in pursuing this goal. The first is students’ assimilating the results of scholarly research on teaching and learning and integrating it with their individual experiences; the second is students’ examining and evaluating some of the many conflicting opinions on the appropriate content and methodologies of teaching. Both are intended to expand students’ perspectives, and thereby expand their abilities to make well reasoned choices on methods, contents, and results that would be most suitable to their individual circumstances.
The philosophy underlying the entire degree program has been termed that of facilitating “civil education”: teaching and learning which appreciates the uniqueness of individuals, acknowledges the human potential for lifelong growth, and stresses the importance of reasoned interaction in the search for meaning. Students in the M.S.Ed School Educator concentration will:
- acquire an integrated body of knowledge related to teaching and learning;
- develop an understanding of learning styles across gender, cultures, developmental life stages, abilities and disabilities;
- integrate and demonstrate attitudes and practices that build on self and others’ resiliencies;
- research and critique a variety of issues connected to curriculum, assessment, instructional technologies and learning styles;
- establish connections among theories, research and practice;
- design, develop, and evaluate a final project that demonstrates growth in teaching & learning.
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School Educator - 33 credits
Choose 5 Elective Education Courses (in addition to courses in core) Master of Science in Education Electives
- ED 505 - Curriculum Design, Development and Assessment Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1, 2 and 6) Credits / Units: 3 - ED 512 - Educating the Exceptional Student in the Classroom Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1and 6) - ED 515 - Instructional Strategies Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1 and 2) - ED 520 - Research Design in Education Credits: 3
- ED 522 - Educational Psychology Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1 and 3) Credits / Units: 3 - ED 523 - Teaching Methods in Secondary Education Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1, 4 and 5) - ED 524 - Instructional Technologies and Applications Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1,3,4 and 6) - ED 525 - Literacy Through Language Credits: 3
(See footnote 5) - ED 526 - Collaborative Independent Study Credits: TBD
(See footnote 4 and 5) - ED 531 - Supervision and Evaluation of Educational Personnel Credits: 3
- ED 532 - School Finance and Budgeting Credits: 3
(See footnote 6) - ED 533 - Federal and State Civil Rights and Education Laws Credits: 3
(See footnote 6) - ED 534 - Community Relations and Communication Credits: 3
(See footnote 2 and 6) - ED 535 - Organizational Theory and Planning Credits: 3
- ED 536 - Educational Leadership Credits: 3
(See footnotes 4 and 5) - ED 537 - Staff Development in Education Credits: 3
(See footnotes 3,4. 5 and 6) - ED 540 - Adult Education and Self-Directed Learning Credits: 3
(See footnotes 4 & 5) - ED 545 - American Education: the Search for the Public Good Credits: 3
(See footnote 3 and 5) - ED 550 - Classroom Management for Effective Learning (K-12) Credits: 3
(See footnotes 3, 5 and 6) - ED 555 - Assessment Tools and Techniques Credits: 3
(See footnotes 3 and 6) - ED 560 - Intercultural Communications and Learning Credits: 3
(See footnotes 2, 5 and 6) - ED 565 - Negotiation and Mediation in Learning Organizations Credits: 3
(See footnotes 3, 4, 5 and 6) - ED 570 - The Reflective Educator Credits: 3
(See footnotes 1, 4, 5 and 7) - ED 580P - School Leadership Internship Credits: 6
(See footnotes 3 and 7) - ED 590P - Student Teaching Credits: 12
- ED 600 - Research Project Credits: 3
- ED 685 - Special Topics and Current Issues in Education Credits: 1-3
MSEd Footnotes
- Strongly recommended for preparation for the Praxis II “PLT” examination
- Strongly recommended for State of Maine Certification in the school leadership concentration
- Recommended for the school leadership concentration
- Recommended for the health education concentration
- Recommended for the school educator concentration
- Recommended for the Catholic School Leadership concentration
- Strongly recommended for the Catholic School Leadership concentration
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