Teaching and Leadership
(A field-based master's program) (32 semester-hours)
This program is designed for certified, employed education personnel who desire to enhance their competencies as practitioners in school settings. It is offered in a field-based model. It is designed to provide the semester-hours and student contact time of a conventional campus-based master's degree program in education under conditions that are convenient to practicing educators. The site-based program is a sequence of courses that examines the research on effective schools, instruction and staff development while building competence in the use of applied research methodologies. The program is offered at a limited number of sites approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Wisconsin Board of Higher Education.
Graduates of Saint Xavier University’s master’s degree program in Teaching and Leadership are eligible to apply for a Teacher Leader Endorsement on their standard or master teacher certificate. The endorsement is issued in one of the ISBE approved designations they are qualified to teach and that corresponds to a content area addressed in the candidate’s action research.
Program Requirements
| EDUGF 500 | Technology for Educators | (2) |
| EDUGF 521 | Active Learning | (2) |
| EDUGF 523 | Teacher Leadership | (2) |
| EDUGF 525 | Introduction to Research: Practice and Theory | (3) |
| EDUGF 528 | Learner Centered Instruction | (2) |
| EDUGF 529 | Critical Issues in Diversity | (2) |
| EDUGF 533 | Authentic Assessment | (2) |
| EDUGF 534 | Literacy in the Content Area | (2) |
| EDUGF 535 | Developing Teachers as Leaders | (2) |
| EDUGF 537 | Action Research in Practice | (2) |
| EDUGF 540 | Team Seminar I | (3) |
| EDUGF 541 | Action Research Project I | (3) |
| EDUGF 542 | Action Research Project II | (2) |
| EDUGF 550 | Team Seminar II | (3) |
( ) = credit-hours / / = classroom hours
Saint Xavier University 2009-2010 Catalog
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