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Master of Arts
MIDDLE GRADES EDUCATION (5-9)
TRADITIONAL ROUTE

PROGRAM COMPONENTS: TOTAL HOURS = 30

Required Major Course Components (18 hrs.)

  Professional Development Component (3 hrs.)
  EDU 501 Online course Seminar: Designing Professional Development Plan (2 hour)*
  EDU 596

Portfolio Development & Professional Education Growth Plan (1 hours)**

     
 

Educational Psychology Component (3 hrs.)

  PSY 510 Online course Advanced Educational Psychology
  PSY 511 Psychology of Learning
  PSY 519 Psychological Perspectives on Classroom Behavior
     
  Strategies Component (3 hrs.)
  EDU 544 Online course Classroom Teaching Strategies
  EDU 522 Foundations of Differentiated Instruction
  EDU 524 Online course Educational Assessment
  GTE 537 Online course Curriculum, Strategies, & Materials for Gifted Students
  ENVE 580 Instructional Strategies Environmental Education
  LTCY 524 Content Area Literacy
  LTCY 444G Reading Secondary Grades
     
  Curriculum Component (3 hrs.)
  MGE 571

Middle School Curriculum -OR-

  SEC 580 Online course The Curriculum
     
  Restricted Elective Component (3 hrs.)
 

If an Exceptional Child Education course is not documented on the candidate’s undergraduate program, the student must enroll in EXED 516 Online course.

If an undergraduate EXED course is documented on the candidate’s undergraduate transcript, another graduate level course may be substituted with advisor approval.

     
  Research/Assessment Component (3 hrs.)
  Choose one:  
  EDFN 500 Online course Research Methods
  Content Specific Research Course
     
Specialization Component (12 hrs.)
 

Courses must be selected from the discipline(s) in which the candidate is certified.
OR
An endorsement in:

  • English as a Second Language
  • Gifted and Talented Education
  • Environmental Education

OR
A certificate in:

  • Technology Education

Notes

*
  EDU 501 must be taken before the student completes 6 hours of graduate courses.
**
  EDU 596 must be taken during the student’s last semester of Master’s program.
Online course
  Online course

MASTERS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM GUIDELINES
Written comprehensive examinations are required of all Masters Degree candidates in teacher education programs. Students must have completed the course requirements for their Master degree program before applying for the comprehensive exams.

School of Teacher Education, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Western Kentucky University
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