Applications Open until March 4, 2019
For information on how to apply please contact Amy von Heyking ([email protected]) or David Slomp ([email protected])
The curriculum is changing. Are you?
For much of the past decade Alberta's K-12 curriculum has been has been in state of flux as initiatives such as High School Redesign, Inspiring Education and the current curriculum rewrite re-imagine education and schools. How are you responding to this state of flux? Are you excited, engaged, apprehensive? Are you closing your classroom door waiting this to all blow over, overwhelmed by it and not sure how to deal with it?
Our Masters of Education program in Curriculum and Assessment is designed to equip educators with both the practical and theoretical knowledge needed to engage, navigate, and lead in this time of change.
For much of the past decade Alberta's K-12 curriculum has been has been in state of flux as initiatives such as High School Redesign, Inspiring Education and the current curriculum rewrite re-imagine education and schools. How are you responding to this state of flux? Are you excited, engaged, apprehensive? Are you closing your classroom door waiting this to all blow over, overwhelmed by it and not sure how to deal with it?
Our Masters of Education program in Curriculum and Assessment is designed to equip educators with both the practical and theoretical knowledge needed to engage, navigate, and lead in this time of change.
Lead with a Broad Vision and Deep Understandings
The Master of Education Program in Curriculum and Assessment at the University of Lethbridge believes that your position title is not what defines you as a leader. You are qualified to lead because of your capacity to think creatively, critically, and deeply about the challenges and opportunities you face as an educator.
The Master of Education program in Curriculum and Assessment is designed to foster a broad range of leaders who are capable of supporting innovation and excellence in schools today: Teachers who lead from their classroom, through their interactions with colleagues, or at their office desks. |
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We cultivate teachers who get noticed by their peers and by their district leadership by embedding them in a three-year program that challenges them to develop a broader vision of education, one that sees opportunities and possibilities, and that does not shy away from challenge or difficulty.
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Flexible Design to Meet your Learning Goals
This program is designed to be tailored to you.
It is delivered in a blended format, online during the school year and face-to-face for three weeks in the summer. This structure enables you to maintain your teaching career while at the same time have opportunities to immediately integrate your learning with your teaching. Students in this program live all across Alberta, some come from the North West Territories, others from BC and Saskatchewan.
The program also provides opportunities for you to complete your degree with either a thesis, a project, or a capstone paper--three exit routes tailored to your goals and needs. Every course in the program offers opportunities for you to explore questions, topics, and disciplinary areas that you are curious about. Alumni of this program have done incredible work in areas as diverse as literacy, fine art, music, social studies, history, math, CTS, and science. They've explored curriculum, assessment, and learning issues at every level of the school system. They've examined the research on topics such as play-based learning, scientific literacy, outcomes-based assessment, developing early interventions for at-risk youth. We can do this because every course in the program is taught by a diverse team of tenure-stream faculty who have expertise across the disciplines. Our goal is to pair you with an expert in your area of interest.
It is delivered in a blended format, online during the school year and face-to-face for three weeks in the summer. This structure enables you to maintain your teaching career while at the same time have opportunities to immediately integrate your learning with your teaching. Students in this program live all across Alberta, some come from the North West Territories, others from BC and Saskatchewan.
The program also provides opportunities for you to complete your degree with either a thesis, a project, or a capstone paper--three exit routes tailored to your goals and needs. Every course in the program offers opportunities for you to explore questions, topics, and disciplinary areas that you are curious about. Alumni of this program have done incredible work in areas as diverse as literacy, fine art, music, social studies, history, math, CTS, and science. They've explored curriculum, assessment, and learning issues at every level of the school system. They've examined the research on topics such as play-based learning, scientific literacy, outcomes-based assessment, developing early interventions for at-risk youth. We can do this because every course in the program is taught by a diverse team of tenure-stream faculty who have expertise across the disciplines. Our goal is to pair you with an expert in your area of interest.
Innovative Experiences
The Master of Education Program in Curriculum and Assessment has been designed to provide students with innovative experiences that challenge them to apply their learning to real world problems. Every course in this program asks you to examine theory and insights in light of your own classroom or leadership contexts.
Every summer, MEd in Curriculum and Assessment students spend one day taking part in the Agility in Education Challenge. This competition pits teams of graduate students together to tackle real world problems schools are facing today. Learning to apply deep understandings and a broader vision to real world challenges enable our students to test their capacity to innovate and promote excellence in education.
Every summer, MEd in Curriculum and Assessment students spend one day taking part in the Agility in Education Challenge. This competition pits teams of graduate students together to tackle real world problems schools are facing today. Learning to apply deep understandings and a broader vision to real world challenges enable our students to test their capacity to innovate and promote excellence in education.
Through our previous two Challenge Day events our students have helped to shape post-secondary teacher education curricula (2015 focus) and the public discourse on school accountability (2016 focus).
Read about it in the following stories from the Edmonton Sun and the Lethbridge Herald. www.edmontonsun.com/2016/07/23/edmonton-high-schools-struggling-to-show-improvement |
For more information on the program contact Amy Von Heyking ([email protected]) or David Slomp ([email protected])
To contact a program coordinator about your questions complete the form on the right. Check us out on Twitter @ #ULMEdCA |
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