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Professional Development Concentration
Master of Education, 32 creditsThe Professional Development Concentration offers teachers an opportunity to explore, create, and collaborate in a professional learning community. Students work from their own experiences and in collaboration with Antioch faculty to define, develop and achieve their professional goals.
This Concentration emphasizes the importance of integrating theory with practice and respects teachers as independent, self-directed learners. This program explores the implications of current learning theory, the impact of contemporary social and political events, and the role of the teacher as curriculum designer. Each student identifies an area of interest for in-depth study in a master’s project.
Students in the Professional Development Concentration include a great variety of people who are engaged in the vital role of teaching. They include PreK-12th grade teachers, artists, musicians, nurses, consultants, and adult educators. They are professionals who have made a professional commitment to teaching and learning, who seek to expand their knowledge, who know the power of working together, and who value the opportunity of life-long learning.
Core Requirements
| Learning Theory | 3 |
| Practicum | 4 |
| Action Research and Educational Change | 2 |
| Contemporary Social & Political Issues in Education | 2 |
| Curriculum Theory & Applications | 2 |
| Teacher Leadership | 1 |
| Philosophical of Education | 3 |
| Data Collection & Analysis I & II | 2 |
| School Change | 2 |
| Data-driven Decision Making | 1 |
| Master’s Project | 3 |
Electives
- Digital Imaging for the Classroom
- Social Inclusion: Teasing, Bullying, and Peer Abuse
- Setting Up a Naturalist’s Journal
- Recrafting Curriculum Using Problem-Based Learning
- Technology in the Classroom: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Backyard Weather Predicting
- Creative Bookbinding
- Assessment: A Focus on Learning
- Image-Making within the Writing Process
- Behind the Label: A Deeper Look at Diagnosis and Toxic Stress in the Lives of Children
- The Cemetery Quest: Using Burial Grounds as Educational Resources
- Teacher Created Web Pages that Support Instruction
- Folk Arts of Early America and the British Isles for the Classroom
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