Accelerated Program for Teacher Licensure

MSE Teaching and Learning

Early Childhood and Elementary Initial Licensure #2088

Online 52 credits * 2.5-3 years
No application fee for online graduate education students

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

CourseTitleHours
EDC 5400Foundations of the Teaching Profession3
EDC 5405Educational Psychology: Theory of Teaching and Learning3
EDC 5410Interdisciplinary Instruction: Teaching in the Middle School3
EDC 5415Analysis of Instruction and Assessment3
EDC 5420Teaching Diverse Students, Families, and Classrooms3
EDC 5425Co-Planning and Planning for all Students3
EDC 5430Language Arts Development and Strategies3
EDC 5435Curriculum and Methods: Language Arts and Social Studies3
EDC 5440Curriculum and Methods STEAM3
EDC 5445Curriculum and Methods Mathematics3
EDC 6470Writing with Young Children3
EDC 6472Early Childhood Literacy3
EDC 6474Curriculum for Early Childhood Education3
EDC 6500Books & Pictures3
EDC 7405Pre-Student Teaching Field Experience1
EDC 7410Student Teaching Placement 13
EDC 7415Student Teaching Placement 23
EDC 7420 CAPTL Portfolio I0
EDC 7421CAPTL Portfolio II     0
EDC 7440CAPTL Capstone Research2
EDC 7445CAPTL Capstone Project1
 Total Credit Hours:52