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Master of Science of Instruction

Degree Requirements
A minimum of 45 credits is required for students with or without prior certification (including 15 credits of professional electives).

Core Courses
At a minimum, 23 pedagogy credits will be required from the core courses for those without prior teacher certification. Students with prior certification or those seeking an add-on certification will select 11 credits from the core courses.

Courses			Credits
EDUC 520	Professional Studies in Instruction*		3.0
EDUC 522	Evaluation of Instruction		4.0
EDUC 523	Diagnostic Teaching		4.0
EDUC 524	Current Research in Curriculum and Instruction		3.0
EDUC 525	Multimedia in Instructional Design		3.0
EDUC 526	Language Arts Processes		3.0
EDUC 540	Field Experience*		3.0
*Not available to those with prior teacher certification.

For students without prior teacher certification, 7 credits are required, selected from the following content categories. (A list of suggested courses is available from the department.) Students with prior certification or those seeking add-on certification select 19 credits from the content categories.

A. Mathematics and science

B. Technological pedagogy

C. Applied pedagogy

Evaluation of transcripts by a program advisor in relation to Pennsylvania state standards determines the required content courses for initial certification and add-on certification. To satisfy state certification requirements, undergraduate courses may be taken in instances where graduate courses are not appropriate. These undergraduate courses will not satisfy graduate degree requirements. However, they will satisfy certification requirements and may satisfy requirements for salary increments in certain school districts. For those with prior certification who do not wish add-on certification, but desire to further professional competence, a distribution of courses from areas A, B, and C is selected under advisement on an individual basis.

Professional Electives

Students with or without prior certification select 15 credits of professional electives. Professional electives are selected with the advice of a program advisor to strengthen mathematics and science knowledge, to refine and update pedagogy competence, to broaden general education, to gain knowledge about the nature of information and information materials, to develop and refine skills in integrating technology into instruction, and to ensure that certification standards are satisfied. Professional electives may be taken from the core courses or from any course in the content categories. Any graduate course offered in the University may serve as a professional elective if the student has adequate preparation to take the course and it is deemed appropriate by the program advisor. The 15 credits of professional electives may comprise a combination of up to three Performance Learning Systems (PLS) courses and/or approved transfer credits. PLS courses must be taken at Drexel to count toward the master’s degree.