Catalog 2009-2010
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Master of Education: Curriculum and Instruction
Lewis & Clark offers an engaging, individually designed course of study for elementary, middle, and secondary teachers wishing to engage in advanced study and improve their teaching practice. The Curriculum and Instruction Program provides maximum flexibility and allows degree candidates to identify their individual learning needs and select appropriate courses in education and the liberal arts. The course of study is planned in consultation with a faculty advisor. The degree may include endorsements in areas such as reading (the Language and Literacy Program), mathematics, ESOL/bilingual education, or special education. Teachers who hold an Oregon Initial I Teaching License may pursue the Oregon Continuing Teaching License as part of their M.Ed. program.
Degree Requirements
A minimum of 36 semester hours, distributed as follows:
Required Courses
ED 500 Educational Research, 2 semester hours
ED 509 Master's Project Seminar, 2 semester hours
ED 520A Professional Portfolio I, 1 semester hour
ED 520B Professional Portfolio II, 1 semester hour
Individual Program of Study
28 semester hours of coursework chosen jointly by the advisor and student, including
LA/SCI/SS/MATH 501 Research and Teaching, 3 semester hours
Graduate Core Requirement
A minimum of 2 semester hours and one Core convocation
A full list of education courses is available at graduate.lclark.edu/cgi-bin/gradcatalog2009.cgi?edcurr.dat
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 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.
ED 520A/620A - Professional Portfolio I
"Community of learners" forum for teachers enrolled in the Continuing Teaching License Program. Taken at the start of the program. Offers participants a collegial environment for exploring their strengths, needs, and possibilities in their current teaching setting. Participants construct a teaching narrative and design an individualized blueprint for the professional portfolio that documents their knowledge and performance in Oregon's advanced teaching competencies during their program of study.
Prerequisite: Initial License and admission to a Continuing Teaching License program, or consent of the department chair.
Credit: 1 semester hour, CR/NC.
ED 520B/620B - Professional Portfolio II
"Community of learners" forum for teachers enrolled in the Continuing Teaching License Program. Taken at the end of the program. Includes presentation of the portfolio begun in ED 520A/620A.
Prerequisite: Initial License, admission to a Continuing Teaching License program, ED 520A/620A.
Credit: 1 semester hour, CR/NC.