Teaching: Master of Arts in Education (MAE) with Preliminary Education Specialist Instruction Credential (Mild/Moderate Disabilities)

Program Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Design critical thinking lessons, programs, and educational learning communities such that their students are aware of critical thinking strategies and can articulate how they are thinking critically.
• Apply and advance teaching and learning theories, strategies, and pedagogical methodologies to their planning, classroom lessons, and curricular design such that professional learning communities are established, supporting high stakes learning for all learners.
• Consistently apply and advance comprehensive, responsive and accountable assessment systems to their professional learning community to assure and advance the action-driven monitoring and evaluating of student progress.
• Embed action research methods in their professional practice as well as applying informed evaluation of professional literature to their practice.
• Consistently integrate informed methods and practices of technology into their professional learning community and practice.
• Establish, support, and assure an inclusive and responsive school setting for all students, families, and communities.
• Embed multicultural understanding and support, language literacy, and sociological concepts into their professional practice in order to create culturally responsive classroom in support of the diverse student population’s learning and advancement.

Specialized Admissions Requirements

Applicants to must satisfy the requirements stipulated in the “Admissions and Registration” section of the University catalog, and must also meet the following criteria:

GPA: Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5

Recommendations: Each candidate must provide two written confidential recommendations from those who can attest to the applicant’s abilities, interests, and proven accomplishments in education.

Personal essay: A two-page personal essay describing the following is required:

• the professional organizations to which you belong,
• honors, activities and other creative accomplishments, and
• a brief autobiographical statement including future professional plans.

Interview: Student must have an interview with the relevant HSOE Admissions Committee.

Upon receipt and review of all documentation, the candidate will be considered for final admission. Final admissions decision will be made by the Program Faculty.

Applicants to the Teaching Credential Programs must also give evidence of passing CBEST scores.

Specialized Admissions Requirements: Credit for Previous Graduate Work

Transfer of credit may be awarded on the following basis:

• A maximum of 6 semester units beyond the bachelor’s degree may be transferred from a regionally accredited institution. All such coursework must have been earned in addition to the bachelor’s degree required coursework.
• The request to accept credit to be transferred must be approved by the program director.
• Credits must have been earned within seven years prior to the request for transfer. Waivers of this requirement may be considered by program faculty on a case by case basis. All waivers must be approved by the dean.
• Extension courses or continuing education courses are not, in standard cases, acceptable for graduate transfer. However, courses completed at high levels through an accredited university or local district program may be considered by the program director and approved by the Dean of the Hufstedler School of Education for partial credit transfer.
• Coursework being considered for transfer must be equivalent to Alliant coursework for which it is being applied. Students are required to submit transcripts, catalog course descriptions and other documentation.
• All coursework must be completed successfully at credit or B levels or higher.

Curriculum and Degree Requirements

30 units are required for the Master of Arts in Education (MAE) degree with Preliminary Education Specialist Instruction Credential (Mild/Moderate Disabilities).

Once admitted to the Program, applicants must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 or higher in all coursework. Students failing to maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 at the end of any term will be placed on academic warning and must correct the deficiency by the following semester or be subject to academic dismissal from the program.

Degrees are posted to the official university transcript through the Registrar’s Office at Candidate request. Completion of degree program is verified by the Registrar as per the Curriculum Plan. All courses below are three units (3) unless otherwise noted.

Curriculum Plan