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Earn Your Master of Education Degree Online - Exclusively for K-12 Teachers |
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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 show you why students misbehave, how to stop unwanted behavior, and how to teach students to make more responsible choices.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- identify the basic needs that motivate all human behavior.
- determine why some students choose to misbehave.
- implement the G-PAR (Goal-Plan, Action, Results) approach to improving student behavior.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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EDUC 5140:
(3 Semester Hours)
Creating a Professional Portfolio: The Capstone Experience
This course is designed to provide participants an opportunity to reflect on their learning and professional growth with the construction of a culminating professional portfolio. The portfolio process will document and deepen your knowledge of reflective practice and heighten your understanding of the competencies you have gained as a result of your participation in the M.Ed. program.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create an impressive portfolio that showcases your teaching 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.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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EDUC 5160:
(3 Semester Hours)
Enhancing Instruction: Teaching in the Quality Classroom
This course will give you the theory and skills to enhance your instruction and develop strategies that will raise your students' achievement to a new level of quality. Featured in the course videos is a visit to the classroom of Mr. Hank Benjamin, an author and a multi-awarding wining teacher, who demonstrates how to translate Dr. Glasser's choice theory into meaningful and engaging lessons.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- help your students become better listeners and stay on task.
- create need-fulfilling and engaging lessons.
- teach your students problem-solving skills that lead to improved achievement.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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EDUC 5170:
(3 Semester Hours)
Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Improving Student Achievement
Various strategies for improving learning are explored including building teacher-student relations, using advanced question techniques, holding class meetings, teaching with stories, and encouraging student self-evaluation. Joining Dr. Glasser in the course videos are Dr. Hanoch McCarty (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Dr. Jane Bluestein (21st Century Discipline).
In this course, you will learn how to:
- use question techniques that promote learning.
- use stories to help increase your students' comprehension and retention levels.
- connect with students who are resisting your best efforts to help them succeed.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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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. The video instructor for this course is Dr. Jane Bluestein, an internationally renowned teacher educator and author of several books including Creating Emotionally Safe Schools and The Win-Win Classroom.
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.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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EDUC 5270:
(3 Semester Hours)
Classroom Management: Dealing with Discipline Problems
This course applies Dr. Glasser's choice theory concepts to commonly occurring classroom discipline problems. Featured in the video is a panel of behavior management experts led by author and teacher educator Douglas Naylor (Teaching Students Responsible Behavior). Problems covered include off-task behavior, cheating, refusing to work, defiance, and fighting.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create and use a classroom discipline plan designed to prevent problems from occurring.
- 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.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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EDUC 5280:
(3 Semester Hours)
Teaching in the 21st Century: New Solutions to New Problems
This course will explore issues critical to effective teaching in the 21st century including multiple-intelligences theory, character education, student hyperactivity, and student responsibility. Video instructors include Dr. Thomas Lickona (Educating for Character), Dr. Sue Teele (The Multiple Intelligences School), and Hank Benjamin (Teaching in a Hyperactive Society).
In this course, you will learn how to:
- use multiple intelligences theory to meet the needs of each of your students.
- 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.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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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 choices to create more effective lessons and units.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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EDUC 5300:
(3 Semester Hours)
Gaining Parental Support: Building Home-School Relationships
With this course, you will acquire skills to improve communication with parents, hold more effective parent conferences, and implement strategies that build a collaborative partnership between school and home. Included in the videos is a workshop led by educational consultant and parent support expert Jeanette McDaniel.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- better prepare for and conduct parent conferences.
- diffuse emotional confrontations with parents.
- implement communication strategies that will build a positive, productive partnership with all of your students' parents.
View a sample video clip from this course:
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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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