MEd in Education; Mild/Moderate Education Specialist
Location: AU Santa Barbara
Credits for Degree: 71 quarter credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Classroom
Standard time to completion: 18 months
Program Overview
This 5 quarter (15-month) program designed for teachers who already possess a multiple subject or single subject credential weaves the requirements for the Preliminary Education Specialist Instruction Credential: Mild-to-Moderate Disabilities with coursework leading toward a Master of Arts in Education degree. The collaborative, cohort-based model is the ideal setting to learn essential skills related to student advocacy and working within diverse and inclusive classrooms.
Candidates experience two sequences of course content: Credential and Research specific.
Credential-specific Sequence
The credential sequence is a collection of courses that prepares candidates to provide instruction, assessment, and support to students with mild-to-moderate disabilities. Courses in the credential-specific sequence include student-teaching accompanied by a professional seminar for two quarters.
Students will also:
- Explore topics of personal and professional interest and to examine their potential roles as leaders in a reflective community of learners
- Have opportunities to reflect on their own strengths and challenges and to examine their own reasoning, values, and interpersonal skills.
- Have two quarters (six months) of student-teaching in a K-12 special education setting
- Learn and develop skills necessary to work with second language learners’ English Language Development
Special Education Program
Candidates in the MA in Education with M/M Educational Specialist Credential program who are teachers with intern credentials use their own classrooms to satisfy the fieldwork requirements. They are supervised by district appointed personnel in addition to Antioch University Santa Barbara Field Supervisors.
Research Sequence
Each of the research courses will focus on applying the material studied and the development of effective interpersonal group skills. Students will address contemporary problems, participate in active problem solving, and work collaboratively in groups.
Candidates in the program complete a thesis. The research course sequence prepares students to write the literature review methods, data analysis and discussion sections of their research project.
Admission Requirements
- Official transcript from a regionally-accredited college or university indicating Bachelor’s degree conferral
- Two letters of recommendation
- Resume
- CBEST test scores, or proof of registration for the CSET Writing Skills exam (for credential programs only)
- CSET: Multiple Subjects exam, proof of registration or scores (for credential programs only)
- Admission essay
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