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Master of Education in Teaching and learning

Master of Education in Teaching and Learning
If you've been teaching with only a bachelor's degree, you may have realized that it's time for something more: New strategies for boosting your students' learning, perhaps. A graduate degree, which could add a welcome increase to your paycheck. Or maybe you'd like to pick up the education courses your undergraduate major didn't include. You may even be yearning for fellowship with a broad range of specifically Christian educators who, like you, consider their teaching a ministry.

For such goals, the problems of distance, time, and availability can sometimes pose big hurdles. But if you're sensing a tug to start graduate school, take a good look at Southeastern's online Master of Education in Teaching and Learning, and watch those hurdles dissolve. Your courses for this program are as close as your keyboard and within a time frame that fits your needs.

We see it this way: You're a K-12 teacher in a public school system, a private school, or a Christian school anywhere in the world, ready to perk up both your resume and your classroom skills. So you need a program that offers convenience, flexibility, and immediately useful content. And as a teacher seeking to approach your work from a solid grounding in Christian principles, you deserve an institution that lives by them: Southeastern University.

Completing a master's degree online
Everything you need in a graduate course—an experienced and caring professor, an interesting assortment of students, a series of intriguing assignments, plenty of discussion and feedback—you can access from your own computer screen. Wear your grubbies, if you like; bring a bowl of popcorn; or set up your laptop at the closest coffeehouse. Southeastern's online experience fits smoothly into your daily life.

Through Blackboard, an interactive software platform, your Southeastern professor posts the syllabus, course assignments, and links to articles and videos. Interaction among class members happens via online discussion boards. You complete reflection papers and other assignments on your own, then e-mail them to your professor, who responds personally to your work.

Invariably, the question arises: "How can a person learn teaching methods online?" Beyond exploring theories of learning, examining current research on best practices, and analyzing day-to-day teaching experiences, your professors lead discussion on a variety of strategies, illustrated in carefully selected online videos. What's more, your online learning is active learning, in which you expand your repertoire of teaching skills by intentionally taking responsibility for that process. As you and your professors work together, you become proficient in team-based methods that actively engage students, such as small-group work, student-to-student feedback, and individual synthesis of learning, followed by sharing what is learned.

To help you refine skills such as classroom management and teaching for diverse learners, we address questions like these: "What does the research tell us about ways to build classroom communities?" "What methods help you use the affective domain (how students feel) to strengthen the cognitive domain (how students think)?" "If students assigned to a collaborative learning activity, such as a lab experiment or a report, are not staying on track, how can you nudge them back into interdependent work?"

Our professors
From your Southeastern professors, expect a sense of connection that leaps across cyberspace. These servant leaders practice a pastoral approach, bringing their rich and deep experience to offer you useful tools for enhancing students' classroom learning. Their backgrounds include school administration and teaching in locations spanning the U.S.

At your own pace
Earning the Master of Education in Teaching and Learning at Southeastern requires 12 courses (36 credit hours), completed within your own time frame. Each course is eight weeks long and requires, on average, eight to ten hours of work per week. Each semester (including the summer), Southeastern offers one course for the first eight weeks and then two courses the second eight weeks. Students can take one, two, or three courses per semester. After each semester, you can choose either to take the next course—or courses—or to stop for a while. If you put yourself on a fast track—three courses every semester—your fourth semester (16 months from when you began) will end in graduation. If a more leisurely pace suits your circumstances, you can take as long as you like. The choice is completely up to you.

Another option: the Graduate Certificate
If your undergraduate major was not education, you may simply want to take the education courses that your state requires for teacher certification. Southeastern offers you an especially practical option: Instead of taking additional undergraduate courses, you can select four of our program's courses (among six possibilities) for graduate credit.

This option jumpstarts two goals simultaneously. You earn education course credits toward certification, and you also complete four graduate courses (a total of 12 credit hours) that will transfer directly into our Master of Education in Teaching and Learning once you're ready to begin your graduate degree.

To receive more information about Southeastern’s Master of Education in Teaching and Learning program, click here.

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