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Master of Education in Educational Administration with Initial Administrator License
The M.Ed. program combines the requirements for an Initial Administrator License with a master's degree and is designed for aspiring administrators.
Eligibility for Initial Licensure
Lewis & Clark recommends for the Initial Administrator License those candidates who have fulfilled the following requirements:
- Completion of a master's degree from an accredited institution.
- An Oregon teaching or personnel service license and three years of successful teaching or personnel service experience.
- Admission to a Lewis & Clark Educational Leadership program.
- Completion of the required hours of graduate coursework appropriate to the desired license.
- Demonstration of knowledge of antidiscrimination statutes, if non-Oregon licensed.
- A passing score on the ORELA: Administrator (#006/007) or the Praxis II test in educational leadership (administration and supervision, #10410).
- Evidence of passing the CBEST, WEST-B, or Praxis I: PPST/CBT series of tests, if coming from out of state.
Initial Administrator License Program of Study
Degree Requirements
A minimum of 38 semester hours, distributed as follows:
Required Courses
The 18 semester hours required for the Initial Administrator Licensure Program. (See the Initial Administrator License section.)
ED 500 Educational Research, 2 semester hours
ED 501 Constructive Assessment in the Classroom, 2 semester hours
EDAD 533/638 Professional Development for Instructional Leaders, 2 semester hours
ED 509 M.A.T. Project Seminar, 2 semester hours, CR/NC
Elective Courses
A minimum of 10 semester hours in subject-area electives (e.g., ESOL, Special Education, Language Arts, School Counseling)
Graduate Core Requirement
A minimum of 2 semester hours and one Core convocation
ED 500 - Educational Research
How professional educators can gather and interpret the information they need for effective decision making. Topics include the major uses and components of classroom or school-based research processes, quantitative and qualitative methods, the scholarly critique of research studies, and what it means to be a reflective teacher-researcher.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
ED 501 - Constructive Assessment in the Classroom
Reexamination of assessment practices employing current constructivist approaches to teaching and learning as well as reflective practice and action research. Participants examine the range of assessment options and design an approach for teachers, diverse students, and parents, including portfolios, performance assessment, interviews, observations, questioning, checklists, self-assessment, and testing. Topics include instructional planning, student engagement, information management, assessment and documentation of student learning, and reporting practices.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
EDAD 533/638 - Professional Development for Instructional Leaders
Same as ED 525.
Prerequisite: Consent of adviser.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
ED 509 - Master's Project Seminar
Culmination of the master's inservice program. Students have the opportunity to integrate what they have learned. In consultation with the instructor, students design a project that defines and answers a question about creating engaging, responsive, democratic learning communities for diverse learners related to their teaching or intellectual and professional development. Class time is reduced to accommodate individual conferences with the instructor and students' research time. The class meets as a group to support students' synthesis of each other's work and for problem-solving as research and writing proceed.
Prerequisite: To be taken at end of master's program.
Credit: 2 semester hours.