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Critical Skills Concentration

Master of Education, 32 credits

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

Learning Theory3
Practicum4
Action Research and Educational Change2
Contemporary Social & Political Issues in Education   2
Curriculum Theory & Applications2
Teacher Leadership1
Philosophical of Education3
Data Collection & Analysis I & II2
School Change2
Data-driven Decision Making1
Master’s Project3

Electives

  • Building Learning Communities
  • Critical Skills for Critical Times
  • Problem-Based Learning
  • Critical Skills Institute
  • Experiential Education: Learning in Meaningful Contexts
  • Assessment: A Focus on Learning
  • Practicum and Master’s Project with a Critical Skills focus

Degree Requirements


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