Elementary EducationM.A. Education, Concentration in Curriculum and
Instruction
Mission
Our mission is to prepare teachers who have high expectations
for all students and have the skills, knowledge, and dispositions
to support high student achievement in diverse school
contexts. Our teacher candidates will prepare children to
develop their potential as learners and participants in a complex,
democratic society.
Student Learning Objectives
Masters candidates will be able to:
- Interpret foundation and theoretical literature
related to education in a specific content area (e.g., literacy, mathematics,
science, social studies, etc.).
- Demonstrate how to critically examine and evaluate
methods of instruction including those used with struggling K-12 learners and
non-native speakers of English
- Use on-going assessment data to teach students from
diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
- Discuss and critique different perspectives of
curriculum and explore how these perspectives relate to K-12 classrooms and
schooling
- Recognize and discuss important aspects of history,
language, and culture undergirding assumptions, values, and beliefs of
competing perspectives in education
- Review and critique research literature in her/his
field of interest
- Design and implement a study to address a question in her/his
field of interest that supports a defensible conclusion
(last updated 1-22-08)
Assessment schedule
(doc)
Assessment reports for: fall 2006 (doc) spring 2007 (doc) fall 2007 (doc)
for earlier reports see the college
report: fall 2005 (doc)
spring 2006 (doc)
last updated 2/12/08
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