Master in Initial Licensure
Valparaiso, USA
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
USD 24,296 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
The M.Ed. – Initial Licensure program is designed for any individual who has an undergraduate degree in an area of study other than teacher education and who wants to pursue graduate studies to become licensed as an elementary or secondary school teacher.
Through classroom study and integrated teaching experience in real classrooms, students transition from knowing their subject to knowing how to share that passion with others. After 21 months (two academic years and one summer), candidates complete their degrees and can apply for licensure. Once licensed, Valpo graduates are eligible to teach in public schools in Indiana and dozens of other U.S. states.
Content areas
Because the M.Ed. – Initial Licensure program helps educated candidates earn their teaching license and prepare to teach, this program relies on students’ undergraduate education to fulfill the state’s requirements for content knowledge. For that reason, applicants for this degree must have an undergraduate major that is “licensable.”
Licensable majors include art, biology, chemistry, Chinese, English, environmental science, French, German, geography, history, mathematics, music, physical education, physics, and Spanish.
The Valparaiso University licensure director evaluates transcripts and determines if there are any deficiencies in the content area. Additional content area courses may be required, depending on the type of teaching license that a candidate wants to obtain. These courses will have to be completed with a 3.0 GPA or better prior to beginning classes for the M.Ed.
Admissions
Curriculum
The program consists of 34–44 credits of required coursework — both a “professional studies” core curriculum and a concentration. Concentrations include elementary, secondary, or Chinese teaching.
Students also complete 10 credits of student teaching under the supervision of a cooperating teacher and university field instructor. During the field education experiences, students are engaged in full-time teaching and therefore will not be able to work at another daytime job.
Professional Studies (13 credits)
- Educational Psychology
- School and Society
- Designing Curriculum, Assessment, and Learning Plans
- Diversity and Equity in Education
- Seminar: Efficacy in Professional Practice
- Learning Exceptionalities
- Teaching Reading to Students with Disabilities
Experiential Learning (10 credits)
- Supervised Teaching
Concentrations (11-21 credits)
Students complete additional coursework for a concentration in either elementary, secondary, or Chinese teaching, depending on the grade level at which they will teach.
Elementary Concentration (Grades P–6)
21 credits
- Foundations in Emergent and Early Literacy
- Methods of Teaching Science in the Elementary School
- Methods of Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School
- Methods of Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School
- Literacy in the Elementary School
- Literacy in Socio-Cultural Contexts
- Teaching Reading to Students with Disabilities
Secondary Concentration (Grades 5–12)
11 credits
- Literacies Across the Content Areas
- English Language Learning Methods
- Methods of Teaching in Secondary Schools (for licensure area)
- Teaching Reading to Students with Disabilities
Chinese Teaching
14 credits
- Literacies Across the Content Areas
- English Language Learning Methods
- Teaching Chinese Literature*
- Methods of Teaching Foreign Language in Secondary Schools
- Teaching Reading to Students with Disabilities
*Note: Must be taken at Valpo
Program Outcome
Licensing
Upon successful completion of the program, teacher candidates are eligible for a master of education from Valparaiso University and, after passing all assessments required by the state and the education department, an Indiana initial teaching license.
This teaching license qualifies an individual to teach in public and some parochial school settings in Indiana. Indiana teaching licenses are reciprocal with teaching licenses in more than 40 other states and territories in the United States.
Three checkpoints must also be successfully completed in this program — at the time of admission, before the student teaching internship, and at the end of student teaching.
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