Physics: Adolescence (7-12 or 5-12)
Program Requirements
A program of 32 semester hours of credit (at least 16 in GSE) within five years is required for the Ed.M. degree. (Please note: New York State requires that a masters' degree be completed within five years of initial certification for professional certification). Six hours of credit may be accepted as transfer credits from other institutions. The last requirement for the master's program is a non-credit master's project or a comprehensive examination (a four-hour written exam offered three times a year). A thesis option is available, recommended for students pursuing doctoral program at other institutions.
Course Work
(see course descriptions)
The following set of courses are available for science education majors. A minimum of 15 semester hours (of science education courses) are required to include LAI 531, LAI 533, and LAI 534. To be accepted, all courses must be approved by the student's major advisor. The following is a list of courses offered by the science education program:
- LAI 503 Selected Topic: Seminar for Beginning Science Teachers
- LAI 530 Improvement of Instruction in Elementary School Science
- LAI 531* Science Curricula: Current Approaches
- LAI 532 Technology and Science Teaching
- LAI 533* Seminar in Science Instruction
- LAI 534* Measurement and Evaluation of Science Instruction
- LAI 535 Seminar in Environmental Education
- LAI 634 Supervision of Science Instruction
- LAI 639 History and Philosophy of Science for Teachers
- LAI 674 Selected Topics: Science, Technology, and Human Values
Electives
Electives should be chosen to meet interests and educational objectives. The following courses are suggested but this is far from an exhaustive list. To be accepted all courses must be approved by the student's major advisor.
- LAI 514 Language, Cognition and Writing
- LAI 523 Social Studies Curriculum
- LAI 541 Seminar in Mathematics Teaching
- LAI 552 Middle Childhood/Adolescence Literacy
- LAI 572 Learning Problems in the Classroom
- LAI 574 Teaching the Exceptional Learners in the Regular Education
- LAI 599 Technology and Curriculum Integration
- LAI 603 Developing Curriculum for Emerging Adolescents
- LAI 609 Curriculum Planning
- LAI 700 Project (3-6 Credits)
- LAI 701 Thesis (3-6 Credits)
Graduate level science courses from other departments (e.g., biological sciences, chemistry, physics, earth sciences, interdisciplinary science), may be included.
