This program is completed in one calendar year with a masters in
childhood education and 1-6 certification. There is also the middle
school extension possibility for those who qualify.
Description
The Master of Science in Childhood Education Accelerated Cohort
Program is a one year cohort masters program in Childhood Education
(1-6) that will prepare new teachers to teach using global
perspectives in diverse settings in a technology rich
environment.
Program Philosophy
The Master of Science in Childhood Education Accelerated
Cohort Program is a cross-disciplinary instructional model of
teacher education designed to give teachers the skills and
dispositions they need to teach in today’s dynamic urban
classrooms. This accelerated program focuses on cultivating global
learning communities and building technology rich environments
using critical pedagogical frameworks. A solid theoretical
grounding in critical and constructivist pedagogies is essential
for highly qualified teachers. Consequently, the program
models current and researched-based best practices that cut across
content disciplines, allowing teachers and faculty to create
meaningful learning experiences in order to create a reflective
professional community.
This program will provide students
opportunities to:
- Interact with state and national standards from both global and
social justice perspectives
- Design deep and meaningful technology-rich instructional
units
- Design instruction around issues of social justice and global
perspectives
- Learn in a team-teaching cross-disciplinary environment with
full-time faculty members
- Experience a close-knit learning community
- Develop long-lasting mentoring relationships with teacher
education faculty
- Experience a diverse range of urban elementary classrooms
- Be mentored in the first year of teaching by program
faculty
Course Requirements &
Certification
Candidates in this cohort program attend one full day of classes
and two evening courses per week for two semesters, and then take a
single capstone course in early summer to complete their coursework
requirements. In the Spring semester students are required to do
their student teaching. An interest in teaching in urban schools is
assumed and/or encouraged. In addition to maintaining a 3.0
GPA in the program, candidates need to complete required state
examinations, including the General Subjects CST and fingerprinting
prior to student teaching.
Faculty
Julie
H. Carter, Ph.D.
Michael
Donhost, Ed.D.
Judith McVarish, Ph.D.
Mary
Beth Schaefer, Ed.D.
Graduate Admission
Information
School of Education
Office of Graduate Admission
(718) 990-2304
graded@stjohns.edu