Master of Science of Instruction
Degree Requirements
A minimum of 45.0 credits is required for students with or without prior certification (including 15.0 credits of professional electives).
Core Courses
At a minimum, 23.0 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 11.0 credits from the core courses.
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| Courses | 23.0 Credits | |||
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| EDUC 520 | Professional Studies in Instruction* | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 522 | Evaluation of Instruction | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 523 | Diagnostic Teaching | 4.0 | ||
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| EDUC 524 | Current Research in Curriculum and Instruction | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 525 | Multimedia in Instructional Design | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 526 | Language Arts Processes | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 540 | Field Experience* | 3.0 | ||
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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.
