Goals
Mission
The Master of Science in Education for
Effective Teaching and Leadership encourages educators to think
deeply, creatively, and critically about the discipline of
education and to consider the importance of their work as teachers
in a diverse and pluralistic society as well as to develop the
personal gifts each brings to teaching.
Goals
- To promote an understanding of teaching as intellectual and
creative work
- To increase knowledge and skill in the art and craft of
teaching
- To promote the skilled, sensitive response to the needs of
learners from a diverse set of backgrounds
- To enhance students' understandings of teaching as moral and
interpersonal activity
- To advance students' personal and intellectual growth through
inquiry
- To inspire professional empowerment through teacher
research
- To develop each student's potential as a teacher leader