Graduate study specialization in Teacher Education/Professional Development is designed to prepare students become teacher leaders, research scholars, and change agents in schools, colleges and universities. At the master’s level, candidates are encouraged to enroll in the M.Ed. in teacher leadership with emphasis in a specialization area that most directly addresses their areas of certification and/or interest. Within each of these specialization areas (or the Special Studies option for candidates with interests or background in other areas), candidates are able to design their studies around the systematic inquiry into their own teaching and to become teacher leaders.
The M.Ed. in teacher leadership focuses on both the professional development needs of teacher practitioners and the organizational culture of the school that promotes or inhibits professional growth.
The Doctoral program (Ph.D.-granting only) specialization in teacher education/professional development is designed primarily to prepare teacher educationscholars with strong research orientations, who will go on to become leaders in college and university settings based on their research agendas in teacher education and teacher development. It is also suited for students who plan to conduct research on these issues in school settings. The Doctoral program focuses coursework in four areas: Department requirements (30 credits), program requirements (minimum 9 credits), program recommended courses (minimum 9 credits), and a cognate area of study (minimum 9 credits). The cognate allows students flexibility to pursue particular individual interests that are relevant to the program's direction but beyond its immediate scope.
Faculty who teach in this program have research interests in the areas of teacher professional development and career trajectories in school settings; school organization and culture; learning how to teach both generally and in subject-specific ways (e.g., learning to teach English or history and social studies); teacher identity development; teaching for diversity; and critical approaches to teacher education and professional development.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER EDUCATION Specialization Area
Department Core Requirements: (minimum 18 credits) more info...
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements
Specialty Courses: (minimum 18 credits)
Required (12 credits):
EDCI 791: Qualitative Research I: Design and Fieldwork
EDCI 785: Teacher Preparation, Diversity, and Social Change
EDCI 782: Power, Privilege, Diversity and Teaching
EDCI 788M: Pedagogy of Teacher Education
(or similar courses approved by advisor)
6 credits from the following:
EDCI 787 Disciplinary Knowledge, School Subjects and Teaching Practice
EDCI 788K Transformative Pedagogies and School Subjects
EDCI 792 Conducting Interpretative Inquiry in Classroom Contexts
EDCI 698 Conducting Research on Teaching
EDCI 888 Apprenticeship in Education
EDMS 651 Intermediate Statistics in Education
EDPL 737 Phenomenological Inquiry
EDPL 711 Oral History and Education
(or equivalent courses to be determined by advisor)
Note: Students are required to demonstrate competency in statistics at the level of EDMS 645.
African American Studies
Anthropology
Curriculum Theory
History
School Subject Area Emphasis (e.g. math, reading, social studies, science)
Social Foundations
Sociology
Urban Studies
Women’s Studies
Dissertation Research: Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD.
60 Credits beyond master’s degree
Note: Preferred candidates will have teaching experiences within grades K-12.
V. READING EDUCATION Specialization Area (Ph.D.)
EDCI Department Core: (minimum 18 credits)
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements as described on page 25.
Specialty Courses: (minimum 12 credits)
Required Specialty (minimum 12 credits):
EDCI 769a Theory and Research in Reading
EDCI 769b Theory and Research in Reading
EDCI 860 Seminar in Reading Education
EDCI 861 Research Methods in Reading
Electives (minimum 15 credits)
Other courses in the specialty such as:
EDCI 660 Diagnostic Reading Instruction
EDCI 661 Content Area Reading
EDCI 663 Issues in Reading Education
EDCI 666 Leadership in Schoolwide Reading Program
EDCI 664 Clinical Assessment in Reading
EDCI 665 Clinical Instruction in Reading
EDCI 761 Advanced Clinical Practices in Reading Assessment
EDCI 762 Advanced Clinical Practices in Reading Instruction
Also acceptable: courses outside the specialty area such as
EDCI Writing courses, EDCI TESOL courses, in consultation with faculty advisor.
Dissertation Research: Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD;
Minimum - 57 credits beyond master’s degree
VI. SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND CULTURE Specialization Area (Ph.D.)
EDCI Department Core: (minimum 18 credits)
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements as described on page 25.
Specialty Courses: (minimum: 15 credits)
May include other courses as they become available.
EDCI 630 Foundations of Second Language Education: Political, Social and Legal Trends and Issues
EDCI 635 English Grammar for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
EDCI 730 Theory and Research in Second Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
EDCI 732 Second Language Acquisition
EDCI 788 Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Learning Styles and Strategies
EDCI 798 Special Problems in Teacher Education: International Perspectives in Language, Schooling, and Culture: Cultural and Linguistic Immersion for Teachers of ESOL
EDCI 788 Special Topics in Teacher Ed.: Special Education and Oral Language Development in TESOL
EDCI 788 Sociocultural Factors in Second Language Education
NOTE: EDCI 788 (Selected Topics in Teacher Education) and EDCI 798 (Special Problems in Teacher Education) may be taken more than once upon consultation with advisor.
Students should be taking courses at the 600 level or above for their doctoral program. In some instances, the doctoral student may not have taken some of the foundational courses that are helpful (although not necessarily required) for gaining the most from the advanced courses listed above. In such a situation, the advisor has the prerogative of recommending one or more foundational course(s) to be taken as part of the doctoral program. Please refer to the Master’s Program Sheet for TESOL or the Master’s Program Sheet for Foreign Language Education.
Electives: (15 credits)
NOTE: It is usually more productive to take courses leading to a unified cognate area than to take five elective courses that are totally disparate. Cognate area courses must be at the graduate level.
Select cognate area from the following subject fields:
Adult Education (see selected EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Cognitive Science (see selected EDHD, LING, and PSYC course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Curriculum (see selected EDCI and EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Diversity (see selected AASP, AAST, EDCI, EDHD, EDPL, and SOCY course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Early Childhood Education (see selected EDCI and EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Educational Psychology (see selected EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Educational Technology (see selected EDCI, EDHD, and EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Elementary Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)
English Language or Literature (see selected ENGL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
English Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Foreign Languages and Area Studies (see selected AAST, CHIN, FOLA, FREN, GERM, GREK, HEBR, ITAL, JAPN, JWST, LASC, RUSS, SLAV, and SPAN course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Human Development (see selected EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Hearing & Speech, Phonetics, Phonology, Pronunciation (see selected HESP course listings in Graduate Catalog)
International Education (see selected EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Language Arts Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Linguistics (see selected LING course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Policy Studies (see selected EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Psychology (see selected EDHD and PSYC course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Reading (see selected EDCI and EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Rhetoric (see selected ENGL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Secondary Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Second Language Acquisition & Application (see selected SLAA course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Special Education (see selected EDSP course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Teacher Education (see selected EDCI and EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)
Other areas with approval of advisor
Dissertation Research: Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD;
Minimum of 6 credits of EDCI 899 for EdD.