Degree Requirements

The Master of Education (M.Ed.) program in Elementary Education provides advanced study for teachers working with children kindergarten through sixth grade. Upon completion of the program, students are eligible for the Class A Professional Elementary Education Certificate provided they already hold a Class B Professional Elementary Education Certificate.

Note: The appropriate course of study sheet and the assigned department advisor should be consulted in all program matters.

Thesis

A student may elect to write a thesis as part of the program. If the student decides to write a thesis, a thesis committee will be appointed to work with the student and to evaluate the thesis. (IDE 510 and IDE 620 are required.)

The program for the M.Ed. in Elementary Education is 30 min credit hours (500 level).

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Curriculum and Teaching
EEC 522	Elementary School Curriculum	3
EEC 523	Instr Plan Elem School	3
RED 531	Trends-Practices Tchg Reading	3
Select one of the following:		3
EEC 532	Lit and Lang Dev in Elem Sch
EEC 535	Trends in Teaching Mathematics
EEC 537	Teaching Science
Diversity Elective
Select one of the following:		3
SPE 500	Nat-Needs of Exc Chld and Yth (Required if introductory special education course not previously taken)
EDU 567	Multicultural Exp in Schools
ELT 525	Found Tchg Eng as Sec Lang
Research & Evaluation see footnote table below 1
IDE 510	Educ Research and Evaluation	3
IDE 620	Quantitative Methods I (see footnote table below) 2	3
Technology
EDM 510	Microcomputing Systems in Ed	3
Teaching Field
Advisor approved 500 level AED, EEC, RED courses		9
Total Hours		33

Footnote

¹

Students who have previously not completed an evaluation course will be required to complete an approved evaluation course in addition to IDE 510.

²

Thesis Option Only with IDE 510

All certification programs require an introductory special education course SPE 500 required under B above, if not completed at the undergraduate level.