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