The Program

The Division of Teaching and Learning (EDTL) offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Education and Specialist in Education. The Master of Education is available in the fields of business education, classroom technology, curriculum and teaching, and reading. The Specialist in Education is available in reading. A reading endorsement program is available for those students who do not wish to pursue a degree program.

CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY:

The program is intended to educate leaders in the area of classroom technology. These individuals will be capable of working within their schools and districts to help integrate technology into the schools. While this program develop s specific technical skills, its focus is the integration of technology into the school setting from a curriculum and instruction perspective. The relationship between choices made about how technology is used in learning settings and the effect of those choices on what is learned (and how it is learned) is one of the major themes of the program.

Two other themes are:

1. The educator as change agent; and
2. The application of concepts and practices that allow the teacher to use technology with students

PREREQUISITES FOR GRADUATE WORK:
   
Prerequisites for the M.Ed. programs include a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. For the M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning, applicants' transcripts are studied to identify deficiencies in preparation in professional education and in those areas for which licensure is desired. If there are deficiencies in the undergraduate preparation, the graduate coordinator prescribes additional course work to cover the area or areas.

Applicants to the M.Ed. and Ed.S. reading programs should hold a teaching license and have teaching experience at the early childhood, middle childhood, or adolescent/young adult (secondary school) level. Completion of the master's degree is a prerequisite to completion of the specialist degree.

CAREER PATHS:

Program graduates have contributed to the literacy development of children, adolescents and adults internationally, nationally as well as through the State of Ohio. School districts have actively recruited graduates as elementary and secondary classroom, remedial reading, high school, vocational school, technical college and two and four year college developmental reading teachers. Alumni have been recruited for leadership positions in state departments of education. Publishers have employed graduates as sales representatives and editors.

Contact Information:

Gregg Brownell, Graduate Coordinator - Classroom Technology
Room: 529 Education Building
Phone: 419-372-9546

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