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To complete the M.A. in Education program, students will be expected to demonstrate competence in seven core learning outcomes, and at least four learning outcomes associated with specialty-area courses. Generally the outcomes are embedded in courses, and you may be only superficially familiar with them. Since they do guide our curriculum development, however, familiarizing yourself with the learning outcomes can help you gain a good understanding of our program and our expectations.
You may also believe you already are competent in an area, and wish to demonstrate competence rather than taking a course. In that case, under the guidance of a faculty member, you would prepare a portfolio documenting his/her competence. A handful of students have already exercise that option.
The table below lists the outcomes, in relationship to courses in which they are taught and assessed.
Core Learning Outcomes

LO #1 : Critical Questioning. Students will express a critical, questioning perspective (i.e., identify, describe, and analyze) about diverse theoretical paradigms about teaching, learning and school reform, including those generated by marginalized groups, which situate schooling in a larger historic and political context

LO #2: Scholarship: Students will search, navigate, and critically consume (read, analyze, and use) educational research.

LO #3 : Action Research: Students will use, apply, design, and implement research to bring about change and make improvements in their own professional environment.

LO #4: Educator: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of and ability to use the most appropriate culturally responsive practices that support complex and challenging learning.

LO #5 : Bilingual Communicator: Students will communicate with native speakers of a language other than English.

LO #6 : Technological Navigator: Students will use technology critically to access information, to communicate, and as a means of curricular and pedagogical support for higher level thinking.

LO #7: Communicator: Students will communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, particularly acting as effective advocates for children.

LO #8: Social Justice Collaborator: Students will work with communities of practice on behalf of social justice.

Specialty Area Learning Outcomes
Students are to select four or five outcomes below, and either complete the designated course or complete a portfolio assessment demonstrating competence in the outcome. Students who are completing specific certifications need to make sure they complete the designated Learning Outcomes for that certification.

LO #10 : Students will use research on child development, language, culture and cognition to develop effective, culturally responsive instruction in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. MAE 636: Culture, Development, and Cognition

LO #11 : Students will use current theories about emergent literacy, analytic and holistic reading strategies, and appropriate strategies for introducing and transitioning second language learners into formal English literacy, to design literacy instruction first and second language young children. MAE 630: Emergent Literacy

LO #12 : Students will diagnose the literacy skills of first and second language learners, and based on that diagnosis, design and use methods first and second language literacy instruction to teach English literacy. MAE 634: Literacy for Linguistically Diverse Learners

LO #13: Students will diagnose the literacy skills of English language learners, and use that diagnosis to design various bilingual and biliteracy methods to develop their literacy skills in both English and their first language. MAE 635: Biliteracy for Spanish/English Learners

LO #15: Students will act as effective advocates for culturally and linguistically diverse children in educational systems, based on analysis of political, cultural, economics, and legal dynamics surrounding the construction and implementation school reforms. MAE 640: Pluralism, Politics, and School Practices

LO #16: Students will design excellent multicultural and/or bilingual curriculum units, using appropriate curricular materials and technology, accurate content, and authentic socio-cultural points of view. MAE 637: Multicultural Curriculum Design

LO #17: Students will use varied current technological packages and systems ethically and effectively to enhance the learning, creativity and responsibility of children in culturally diverse contexts, and to link their own students with children and resources worldwide. MAE 638: Technology as a Tool for Creativity in Multicultural Classrooms

LO #18: Students will situate a socio-cultural group critical and culturally relevant in a historical context, using intellectual frameworks for analysis that are by scholars who are from those communities. MAE 644: Critical Social Foundations

LO #19 : Students will design multiforms (drama, music, art, poetry, readersí theater, literature, teledramatics) as a basis for academic engagement and development of literacy, based on an analysis of connections between language skills and art, and identification of their own creative talents. MAE 632: Integrating Arts into the Classroom

LO #20: Students will design interdisciplinary uses for childrenís literature in the classroom, based on analysis of literature for both children and adults written by culturally diverse authors, and analysis of effects of such literature on children. MAE 633: Advanced Children's Literature

LO #21: Students will describe, interpret, and use multiple paradigms for student assessment (such as standardized assessment, authentic/portfolio assessment), and situate the development and use of various forms of assessment in a historic and political context MAE 641: Multiple Paradigms in Educational Assessment

LO #23: Students will demonstrate growth in a specified area of their teaching, through a process of systematic classroom inquiry with coaching. MAE 639: Reflective Teaching Practicum

LO #24: Students will apply theories of language development, language structure, and sociolinguistics to language teaching in the classroom. MAE 631: Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition

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