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