Master of Education [M.Ed] [Teaching-Non Licensure Concentration in Secondary Social Studies] From American Public University

The program encourages the development of professional who understand how secondary students can work independently and collaboratively using critical thinking and problem-solving skills necessary to develop civic responsibility for the 21st Century. Candidates will complete a master’s degree. This is a non-licensure program and thus does not prepare candidates for eligibility for certification.

This program seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates. Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Apply the central concepts, tools of inquiry, structures, contemporary theories, and paradigms in education that develop a classroom climate to enhance the social, emotional, physical, and psychological aspects of students.
• Create lesson segments that reflect theory and practice.
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing when interacting with pupils, parents, teachers, and other school personnel.
• Design performance-based assessments, instruction, evaluation, and intervention plans.
• Use media and technology as tools for professional development and to promote student learning.
• Adjust teaching style and strategies without influence of bias to meet the needs of students regardless of cultural background, ethnicity, gender, learning style, at-risk condition, and/or disability.
• Model professionalism and high ethical standards in the classroom and develop appropriate strategies for self-evaluation as a means of assessing one’s own professionalism and teaching effectiveness.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skill in classroom management and discipline using effective means to develop and maintain a positive classroom climate.

Candidates in this program must be physically located in proximity to a school district where the right to conduct on site observations will be allowed.

Any background check requirements, including fees, for the selected schools district are the student's responsibility.