2013-2014 Catalog

Elementary Education M.Ed.

Admission Requirements

  1. Completion of all Feinsten School of Education and Human Development admission requirements.
  2. One year teaching experience.
  3. An interview may be required.

Course Requirements

Foundations Component

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
ELED 512Theoretical Perspectives on How Students Learn

3

Offered annually.
ELED 513Designing and Assessing Teaching and Learning

3

Offered annually.
ELED 514Educational Change

3

Offered annually.
ELED 664Seminar in Education

3

Offered as needed.
INST 516Integrating Technology into Instruction

3

Offered annually.

CHOOSE A, B, C, or D below

A. Literacy

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
ELED 501Reading in the Content Area

3

Offered fall, spring, summer
ELED 508Language Arts in the Elementary School

3

Offered summer.
ELED 534Developmental Reading:Prekindergarten through Grade Eight

3

Offered fall, spring, summer
ELED 558Teaching and Learning Writing

3

Offered summer (as needed).
FNED 547Introduction to Classroom Research

3

Offered fall and spring.

B. Mathematics Education

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
ELED 504Mathematics in the Elementary School

3

Offered fall and spring.
ELED 506Elementary Mathematics: Geometry, Measurement, Data, Statistics

3

Offered as needed.
ELED 619Elementary Mathematics Assessment and Remediation Clinic

6

Offered as needed.
FNED 547Introduction to Classroom Research

3

Offered fall and spring.

C. Learning Diversity

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
ELED 507Teaching Reading and Writing to English-as-a-Second-Language Students

3

Offered spring.
Or

TESL 507Teaching Reading and Writing to English-as-a-Second-Language Students

3

Offered fall and spring.
 

FNED 547Introduction to Classroom Research

3

Offered fall and spring.
SPED 551Urban Multicultural Special Education

3

Offered fall.
TESL 539Language Acquisition and Learning

3

Offered spring and summer.

D. Individualized

To be determined by candidate, advisor, and M.Ed. committee

Total Credit Hours: 30