Description

This online Master of Education in Elementary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Teacher Licensure degree from Jones International University has been created for those educators who are looking for a flexible option for furthering their understanding of creating quality elementary curriculum, as well as a method for obtaining teaching licensure.

This fully online elementary curriculum, instruction, and assessment program has been designed by JIU's expert faculty to prepare educators for seeding advancement in their professional careers.

As a student in this online degree in elementary education, individuals will partake in a variety of pedagogical experiences, such as student teaching, designed to augment their professional knowledge, skills and aptitude.

This online Elementary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: Teacher Licensure program has been created in alignment with the professional assessments set forth by Childhood Education International (ACEI), Colorado Department of Education (CDE), and Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE).

Students in this online degree in elementary education: curriculum, instruction, and assessment degree program will learn to:

• Explain and demonstrate how student teachers engaging in supervised, professional field experiences can use reflective practices to improve their teaching.
• Use strategies to develop student literacy in reading, writing, speaking, viewing, and listening.
• Use strategies to develop student literacy in mathematics.
• Design curriculum in order to demonstrate knowledge in the specific curriculum area you will be teaching, or in the content areas of civics, economics, foreign language, geography, history, science, music, visual arts, and physical education if you teach elementary students. Demonstrate expertise in your content endorsement area(s), and integrate literacy and mathematics across the curriculum if you teach secondary students.
• Rehearse and develop classroom practices to manage time, communications, and record keeping procedures to support and enhance student learning.
• Respond to the needs and experiences children bring to the classroom, including those based on culture, community, ethnicity, economics, linguistics, and innate learning abilities.
• Discuss learning exceptionalities and conditions that affect the rate and extent of student learning, and begin adapting instruction for all learners.
• Use technology to support instruction and enhance student learning.
• Collaborate with other educational professionals to accomplish school, district, and state educational goals and objectives.
• Use strategies, planning practices, assessment techniques, and appropriate accommodations to ensure student learning in a standards-based curriculum and communicate those plans to parents, guardians, professionals, administrators, and the community.
• Describe and apply the use of Colorado Model Content Standards (or standards for another state) in elementary and secondary curricula, especially in literacy, mathematics, and assessment.
• Demonstrate professional accomplishments gained from student teaching and mastery of all course learning objectives through a portfolio project.

The CDE and CCHE recognize the high quality of JIU's MEd preparation degrees and have designated JIU as a state-approved program of teacher and principal/administrator preparation. For most states, graduating from an approved program of preparation is an important step toward achieving educator licensure or certification.

Please note: The above college tuition costs listed on this website are not exact. They are an approximate estimation set forth by our most recent research in order to help students compare online colleges and universities. We encourage students to contact the school for the exact cost of your online degree program.