Credential Programs
Multiple Subjects Credential Program |
Candidates for the Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential demonstrate competency in the following Teaching Performance Expectations: |
Specific Pedagogical Skills for Subject Matter Instruction (Reading-Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, History-Social Science) |
Monitor Student Learning During Instruction |
Interpretation and Use of Assessments |
Making Content Accessible |
Student Engagement |
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Practices (includes Grades K—3, 4-8) |
Teaching English Learners |
Learning about Students |
Instructional Planning |
Instructional Time |
Social Environment |
Professional, Legal, and Ethical Obligations |
Professional Growth |
Single Subject Credential Program |
Candidates in the Single Subject Credential Program demonstrate competency in the following Teaching Performance Expectations: |
Specific Pedagogical Skills for Subject Matter Instruction (English-Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, History-Social) |
Monitoring Student learning During instruction |
Interpretation and Use of Assessments |
Making Content Accessible |
Student Engagement |
Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Practices (grades 9 – 12) |
Teaching English Learners |
Learning About Students |
Instructional Planning |
Instructional Time |
Social Environment |
Professional, Legal, and Ethical Obligations |
Professional Growth |
MA Education
[1] Students demonstrate mastery of the body of knowledge in the degree field, including the related cultural, technological, ethical and professional competencies. |
[2] Students demonstrate skills of critical thinking and analysis. |
[3] Students demonstrate both oral and written communication skills, including the academic and technical writing skills appropriate to the degree field. |
[4] Students demonstrate knowledge and skills related to the organization, implementation, interpretation and analysis of research appropriate to the degree field. |
[5] Students demonstrate knowledge and skills of leadership, advocacy and agency as these apply to the degree field. |
[6] Students demonstrate knowledge, skills and dispositions of critical inquiry and reflective practice. |
[7] Students demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions associated with effective collaboration with peers, colleagues and communities. |
[8] Students demonstrate research-based knowledge, skills and dispositions associated with equity and diversity as these apply to effective practice in the content field. |
MA Education (Options)
M.A. in Education: Option in Creative Literacies and Literature |
Enhance capacity to assume leadership in schools by promoting skills and knowledge inherent in visual and performing arts and apply those across the curriculum |
Promote literacy activities in neighborhood and community institutions such as libraries, parks and other groups through visual and performing arts |
Increase understanding and appreciation of multicultural, multilingual and diverse literatures |
Demonstrate new or renewed understanding of the curricular, pedagogical and research issues associated with the teaching of creative literacies and literature as applied across the curriculum |
Demonstrate knowledge of educational research in the fields of story, educational drama and children’s literature and apply that practically to curriculum across the board |
Increase understanding and appreciation of multicultural, multilingual and diverse literatures and literacies and demonstrate their uses across the curriculum |
M.A. in Education: Option Early Childhood/Primary Education |
Demonstrate an understanding of the role of children’s self-initiated and self-structured activities in their learning and development |
Improve their ability to plan developmentally and culturally appropriate curriculum to address the developmental range and diverse characteristics of young children (birth to age 8) |
Demonstrate an understanding of critical issues and trends in the field of early childhood education |
Demonstrate personal research skills and apply theoretical and research knowledge to practice in early childhood settings |
Engage in reflective inquiry and demonstrate professional self-knowledge |
Increase their ability to work with linguistically and culturally diverse children and families |
Demonstrate their ability to work collaboratively with peers/colleagues to achieve goals for children and families |
Increase their capacity to assume leadership roles in schools or programs serving young children and their families |
M.A. in Education: Option in Mathematics Education |
Develop an understanding of current issues, practices and directions in curriculum and the ability to inquire into these |
Develop knowledge and skills in educational research; develop analysis and reflection skills and written and oral communication |
Identify and analyze topics of importance in current educational conversations and debates for critical issues related to urban elementary education |
Deepen their commitment to their students and their students’ learning of mathematics |
Increase their confidence to teach mathematics |
Improve their ability to manage and assess their students’ mathematics learning |
Augment their capacity to think reflectively about their teaching of mathematics |
Increase their capacity to become an agent of change in the field of mathematics education |
M.A. in Education: Option in Middle and Secondary Curriculum and Instruction |
Discover innovative methods of instruction to increase effectiveness and students’ engagement, learning, and thinking |
Develop knowledge and strategies to design curriculum at classroom, school, and district levels |
Increase leadership effectiveness among fellow teachers by understanding the complex social factors at work I school communities |
Take charge of change by developing, implementing, and evaluating instructional innovations in middle and high schools |
Prepare for additional subject area teaching certifications through appropriate course work leading to demonstration of competency in selected fields while earning an MA degree |
Acquire knowledge and skills that enable teachers to effectively pursue National Board Certification in their chosen field |
Build knowledge base and experience that prepares educators for entry into doctoral programs in education |
M.A in Education: Option in Reading and Language Arts |
Demonstrate new or renewed understanding of the curricular, pedagogical, and research issues associated with the teaching reading and language arts |
Improve their abilities to assess children’s performance in reading and related language arts curricular areas |
Become educated consumers of educational research in the fields of reading and language arts |
Become leaders in their schools promoting aesthetic values inherent I the reading and language arts |
Increase their capacity to become change agents in the field of reading and language arts |
M.A. in Education: Option in Science Education |
Address K-8 educators’ individual needs as learners in urban settings and build on their current knowledge of science content, teaching and learning with the expectation that each individual brings varying degrees of experience, professional expertise, and proficiency to the process |
Give individuals with teaching experience and/or a role in education a new or renewed opportunity to examine the curricular, pedagogical and research issues associated with science teaching and learning |
Allow individuals to gain an enhanced perspective of science education and environmental education and tat the same time acquire the skill to communicate the excitement of science to others |
Involve science educations in learning science content and the nature and philosophy of science using the process of inquiry and hands-on/minds-on learning |
Introduce science educators to scientific literature, science education research, the nature and process of science, professional development and organizations, informal science education sites, the role of urban environmental education and science learning, and media and technological resources that expand their science knowledge and ability to access further knowledge. |
Prepare individuals who may want to pursue a doctoral degree in science education, individuals who may choose to leave the formal classroom setting for positions such as district science education specialist/curriculum coordinator or resource person, science education specialist in industry with a role as a trainer or public relations individual, or as a science specialist in non-academic settings such as museums, zoos, or nature centers |