The School of Education offers a program leading to a Master of Education degree designed to facilitate the highest level of teacher performance. The core courses focus on the mastery of teaching effectiveness for teachers in grades K through 12. The objectives enable the teacher to:
- Develop the verbal skills and strategies that produce mastery of positive communication
- Acquire skills that increase student thinking and self-esteem through the instruction process
- Use instructional strategies to reach the learning style preferences of students
- Create lesson formats and instructional processes (induction, deduction, inquiry, analysis and synthesis) that match the learning and thinking styles of students
- Develop skills to create a motivating learning environment.
- Develop research skills that can be utilized to effectively enhance curriculum, instruction, and assessment