The Award Winning Master of Education Degree in Quality Schools
This program is comprised of 10 three-semester hour courses delivered in a video-based online format.
* Sample Video Clips are now available below each Course Description.
Course Descriptions:
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EDUC 5130:
(3 Semester Hours)
Introduction to Choice Theory: Teaching Students Responsible Behavior
This course will give you the theory and skills to teach students how to take responsibility for their own behavior in school. It will lead you through a series of learning activities designed to instruct you in how to teach your students the concepts of Choice Theory and to plan and implement a program of Responsibility Training in your classrooms.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- determine why some students choose to misbehave.
- implement a proven approach to improving student behavior.
- effectively use "Time Outs" to improve behavior.
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EDUC 5140:
(3 Semester Hours)
Creating a Professional Portfolio: A Portfolio Project for Teaching Students Responsible Behavior
This course is designed to help you extend the application of what you learned in "Teaching Students Responsible Behavior" and in the process gain experience in the creation of a portfolio. The portfolio development guidelines are aligned with the standards set by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create an impressive portfolio that celebrates your learning strengths.
- take an important first step toward national certification.
- use professional portfolios as a vehicle for career-long professional development.
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EDUC 5150:
(3 Semester Hours)
Motivation and Learning: Co-Operation and the Quality Classroom
This course will give you the theory and skills to create lesson plans that meet the basic psychological needs of students and gain their cooperation in the learning process. Based on the works of Drs. William Glasser, David Johnson and Roger Johnson, you will gain the knowledge and skills to guide your students to become active, enthusiastic partners in the learning process.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create lessons that involve students.
- use cooperative learning strategies to encourage quality work.
- help students solve classroom problems affecting learning.
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EDUC 5160:
(3 Semester Hours)
Enhancing Instruction: Teaching in the Quality Classroom
This course will give you the theory to enhance your instructional skills and develop strategies that will raise your students' achievement to a new level of quality. Course assignments and activities introduce you to Dr. Glasser's Quality Schools concepts and practices and demonstrate how they can be combined in a comprehensive program of instruction and behavior management.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- teach your students problem-solving skills that lead to improved achievement.
- help your students become better listeners and stay on task.
- manage your classroom in a manner that promotes quality work.
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EDUC 5170:
(3 Semester Hours)
Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Improving Student Achievement
This course will give you the psychological foundation to understand how learning, motivation, and individual differences relate to improving student achievement. In the videos, you will see demonstrated dozens of strategies that are being successful used to enhance student achievement at all grade levels.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create effective lessons and units that engage students in the learning process.
- increase your students' comprehension and retention levels.
- connect with students who are resisting your best efforts to help them succeed.
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EDUC 5260:
(3 Semester Hours)
Responsibility, Respect, and Relationships: Creating Emotionally Safe Classrooms
This course will give you the knowledge and skills to deal with students' apprehensions and fears and at the same time create an emotionally safe classroom atmosphere that promotes learning. Topics covered include teaching to various learning styles and preferences, setting attainable goals for improving student achievement, and helping students in crisis situations.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create an emotional safety net to support troubled students before they become dangerous students.
- recognize and respond effectively to students who are experiencing an emotional crisis.
- identify and capitalize on students learning strengths and preferences.
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EDUC 5270:
(3 Semester Hours)
Classroom Management: Dealing with Discipline Problems
This course will give you the knowledge and skills to apply previously learned choice theory concepts to commonly occurring classroom discipline problems. As a course outcome, you will develop a personalized plan designed not only to solve discipline problems but also to help students take responsibility for their own behavior.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- solve commonly occurring discipline problems that keep you from teaching and other students from learning.
- deal with recurring discipline problems and help troubled students plan for improved behavior.
- create and use a classroom discipline plan designed to prevent problems from occurring.
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EDUC 5280:
(3 Semester Hours)
Teaching in the 21st Century: New Solutions to New Problems
This course will explore five areas that are critical to effective teaching in the 21st century. These areas are the vital connection between student-teacher relationships and academic achievement, teaching strategies that take advantage of multiple-intelligences theory, approaches to character education, strategies to deal with increased student hyperactivity, and learning projects that develop self-management skills.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- successfully teach those students who have previously been labeled as "unreachable".
- gain valuable new skills that will help you build positive relationships with your students.
- create classroom activities that will help students who are continually hyperactive in your classroom.
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EDUC 5290:
(3 Semester Hours)
Making Learning Meaningful: Every Student Can Succeed
In this course, Dr. Glasser presents his new ideas about competency-based teaching, assessment, and success-oriented teaching strategies. Featured in the course videos are actual lessons taught in Glasser quality schools. The lessons are presented with little or no editing to demonstrate from start to finish how to create and conduct lessons in which every student can succeed.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Create and teach lessons that produce competency-based learning.
- Bring your lesson to life and engage students in the learning process.
- Use choice theory to create more effective lessons and units.
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EDUC 5300:
(3 Semester Hours)
Gaining Parental Support: Building Home-School Relationships
With this course, you will acquire the theory and skills to improve communication with parents, hold more effective parent conferences, and implement strategies that build a collaborative partnership between school and home. You will be presented with the theoretical foundation and implementation designs that will prepare you to work more effectively with parents to improve student achievement.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- diffuse emotional confrontations with parents.
- better prepare for and conduct parent conferences.
- implement communication strategies that will build a positive, productive partnership with all of your students' parents.
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Final Project:
Your Master of Education experience culminates in the creation of a professional portfolio that showcases your accomplishments and documents your proficiency in utilizing quality teaching strategies.
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