Critical Skills Concentration
Critical Skills is a unique educational model emphasizing problem-based, standards-driven, experiential and collaborative learning. Critical Skills teachers design, coach and support the learning process; students actively solve meaningful problems, reflect on what they are learning, work as a team and exhibit their learning in a variety of ways.
Experienced Educator students may elect the Critical Skills concentration during the first year of their program. Critical Skills students must take 4 Critical Skills elective courses, Critical Skills Level 1 Institute, 1 semester of Critical Skills Practicum, and have a Critical Skills focus to their Master’s Project.
Core Requirements
| Critical Skills Level I Institute | |
| Learning Theory | |
| Social & Political Issues | |
| Curriculum Theory & Application | |
| Teacher Leadership | |
| Philosophy of Education | |
| School Change | |
| Action Research | |
| Data Collection & Analysis | |
| Master's Project | |
Electives
- Building Learning Communities
- Critical Skills for Critical Times
- Problem-Based Learning
- Critical Skills Institute
- Real World Learning
- Assessment: A Focus on Learning
Degree Requirements