Master of Education in Secondary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: Teacher Licensure
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Developed for educators who are interested in pursuing licensure or certification as a teacher, the MEd in Secondary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: Teacher Licensure degree program prepares educators seeking to advance their professional careers. Candidates find coursework, including student teaching, designed to augment their professional knowledge, skills and aptitude.
The MEd in Secondary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: Teacher Licensure aligns with the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) professional standards. The CDE and CCHE recognize the high quality of JIU’s MEd preparation degrees and have designated JIU as a state-approved program of teacher and principal/administrator preparation. For most states, graduating from an approved program of preparation is an important step toward achieving educator licensure or certification.
Candidates who complete this program:
- Explain and demonstrate how student teachers engaging in supervised, professional field experiences can use reflective practices to improve their teaching.
- Use strategies to develop student literacy in reading, writing, speaking, viewing, and listening.
- Use strategies to develop student literacy in mathematics.
- Design curriculum in order to demonstrate knowledge in the specific curriculum area you will be teaching, or in the content areas of civics, economics, foreign language, geography, history, science, music, visual arts, and physical education if you teach elementary students. Demonstrate expertise in your content endorsement area(s), and integrate literacy and mathematics across the curriculum if you teach secondary students.
- Rehearse and develop classroom practices to manage time, communications, and record keeping procedures to support and enhance student learning.
- Respond to the needs and experiences children bring to the classroom, including those based on culture, community, ethnicity, economics, linguistics, and innate learning abilities.
- Discuss learning exceptionalities and conditions that affect the rate and extent of student learning, and begin adapting instruction for all learners.
- Use technology to support instruction and enhance student learning.
- Collaborate with other educational professionals to accomplish school, district, and state educational goals and objectives.
- Use strategies, planning practices, assessment techniques, and appropriate accommodations to ensure student learning in a standards-based curriculum and communicate those plans to parents, guardians, professionals, administrators, and the community.
- Describe and apply the use of Colorado Model Content Standards (or standards for another state) in elementary and secondary curricula, especially in literacy, mathematics, and assessment.
- Demonstrate professional accomplishments gained from student teaching and mastery of all course learning objectives through a portfolio project.
The MEd in Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Teacher Licensure is designed for educators who are pursuing licensure or certification as a middle or high school teacher. Graduates emerge as leaders who are ready to transform middle and high schools and advance in their careers.
