This program is designed to provide further professional development and skills to classroom teachers who are in the profession and already hold a teaching license. (Students may be accepted to this program without holding a valid teaching license at the discretion of the program director.)  The program enables the teacher to improve classroom teaching skills and increase understanding of the process of education and the art of teaching.  The program requires eighteen (18) semester hours of required courses and allows for fifteen (15) semester hours of coursework related to the teacher's interest areas.  The total master’s degree requires thirty-three (33) semester hours plus 3 zero credit portfolios to assess the progress of learning throughout the program. 

Optional add-on WI DPI licensure track:

• Alternative Education

Program Learning Outcomes 

1. Knowledge of Students - Accomplished educators draw on their knowledge of how students learn and develop in order to understand their students and guide curricular and instructional decisions.

2. Knowledge of Content and Curriculum - Accomplished educators draw on their knowledge of subject matter to establish goals and to facilitate student learning within and across the curriculum. 

3. Learning Environment - Accomplished educators establish a caring, inclusive, stimulating, and safe school community where students can take intellectual risks, practice democracy, and work collaboratively and independently. 

4. Technology and Instructional Resources - Accomplished educators are knowledgeable about and, where available, use current technologies and select, adapt and create engaging resources to promote student learning. 

5. Knowledge of Teaching Practice - Accomplished educators create elegant and powerful approaches to instructional challenges and rely on their extensive pedagogical knowledge to make curricular decisions, select instructional strategies, develop instructional plans and formulate assessment plans. 

6. Meaningful Learning - Accomplished educators require students to confront, explore, and understand important and challenging concepts, topics, and issues to improve skills in purposeful ways. 

7. Assessment - Accomplished educators understand the strengths and weaknesses of different assessment methods, employ multiple methods of assessment, base their instruction on ongoing assessment, and encourage students to monitor and reflect on their own learning. 

8. Reflective Practice - Accomplished educators regularly analyze, evaluate, reflect on, and strengthen the effectiveness and quality of their practice. 

9. Family Partnerships - Accomplished educators work to involve families in their children’s education, help the community understand the role of the curriculum in today’s world, and, to the extent possible, involve the community in support of instruction. 

10. Contributions to the Profession - Accomplished educators work with colleagues to improve schools and to advance knowledge and practice in their field. 

11. Christian Ethical Leadership - Accomplished educators model Christian servant leadership through consistent, moral, and ethical behaviors and, by example, inspire others to do likewise in their personal, professional, and community life.

Curriculum

Course options and schedule are subject to change.