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Secondary Teaching and Learning

Master of Arts

About this program

The M.A. in Secondary Teaching and Learning is designed for early career secondary public school teachers who want to strengthen their day to day practice through equity focused, inclusive teaching and curriculum design for social justice. You will deepen your understanding of teaching, learning, and public education, analyze real artifacts from your classroom, and build student centered, culturally responsive lessons using strong curriculum design. The program also guides you through an action research project in your own classroom and a final portfolio that documents your growth as an educational thinker and instructional leader.

Program Curriculum and Requirements

Master's

What you can do

Employment Opportunities

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Program Scope

The MA in Secondary Teaching and Learning supports early-career, secondary public school teachers to engage in critical inquiry about their teaching practice and to deepen and strengthen their equity-focused and inclusive pedagogy, as well as curricular design for social justice. The program includes support for students (who are teachers) to:

Deepen and expand their commitments to and engagement with theories and practices of teaching, learning, and public education.
Develop and analyze artifacts of their teaching practice in relation to relevant curricular and pedagogical issues.
Design and implement curriculum that engages with current educational theory; student-centered, equity-focused, culturally responsive pedagogy; and backwards curriculum design.
Develop action research projects, which they conduct in their own classrooms.
Compile a portfolio, chronicling their development as educational thinkers and instructional leaders.

Program Learning Outcomes

Analyze artifacts of their teaching practice in relation to relevant curricular and pedagogical issues.
Design and implement curriculum engaging with current educational theory; student-centered, equity-focused, culturally responsive pedagogy; and backwards curriculum design.
Conduct action research projects in their own classrooms.

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