Accelerated Program for Teacher Licensure
MSE Teaching and Learning
Early Childhood and Elementary Initial Licensure #2088
Program Highlights & Benefits
Flexible, online format
Easy, efficient admissions steps
Up to 50% of your graduate credits can be considered
Professors who are committed to helping foster personal and professional success
For
Those looking to become a certified educator. Candidates for this program will need to have earned their bachelor’s degree in order to be enrolled in this program.
In this accelerated program, your core courses will focus on building your teaching skills and strategies. Then you fulfill required hours in the classroom observing and student teaching which will further establish your teaching abilities and confidence. Open to individuals currently serving in education and those looking to start their teaching careers.
What You Learn
We develop caring, skilled, and reflective teachers that will be servant teachers in public, private, and parochial schools. Our relevant curriculum prepares you to work with diverse student populations and gives you the ability to differentiate instruction to meet the academic needs of all learners. In addition, classroom observation and student teaching will develop your abilities to effectively lead a classroom.
How You Learn
Class sizes are small to provide individualized attention during 8-week course sessions.
- Online courses are the primary format. You take at a time that works for you.
- Select courses will be taken in real-time via zoom on a scheduled night of the week with the professor and other students.
Career Outcomes
You will earn your Wisconsin teacher license to be certified to teach at both early childhood and elementary education levels. You will establish a strong foundation of teacher skills and strategies in this program to become a licensed educator. From birth to third grade, which is early childhood to elementary ed. which is 4K to ninth grade, you will develop the expertise and confidence to meet the needs of these specific students.
Degree Requirements
Master of Science in Education-Teaching and Learning-Early Childhood & Elementary Courses – 52 Credits
| Course | Title | Hours |
| EDC 5400 | Foundations of the Teaching Profession | 3 |
| EDC 5405 | Educational Psychology: Theory of Teaching and Learning | 3 |
| EDC 5410 | Interdisciplinary Instruction: Teaching in the Middle School | 3 |
| EDC 5415 | Analysis of Instruction and Assessment | 3 |
| EDC 5420 | Teaching Diverse Students, Families, and Classrooms | 3 |
| EDC 5425 | Co-Planning and Planning for all Students | 3 |
| EDC 5430 | Language Arts Development and Strategies | 3 |
| EDC 5435 | Curriculum and Methods: Language Arts and Social Studies | 3 |
| EDC 5440 | Curriculum and Methods STEAM | 3 |
| EDC 5445 | Curriculum and Methods Mathematics | 3 |
| EDC 6470 | Writing with Young Children | 3 |
| EDC 6472 | Early Childhood Literacy | 3 |
| EDC 6474 | Curriculum for Early Childhood Education | 3 |
| EDC 6500 | Books & Pictures | 3 |
| EDC 7405 | Pre-Student Teaching Field Experience | 1 |
| EDC 7410 | Student Teaching Placement 1 | 3 |
| EDC 7415 | Student Teaching Placement 2 | 3 |
| EDC 7420 | CAPTL Portfolio I | 0 |
| EDC 7421 | CAPTL Portfolio II | 0 |
| EDC 7440 | CAPTL Capstone Research | 2 |
| EDC 7445 | CAPTL Capstone Project | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 52 |
