Teacher Education

Graduate Degrees Offered

• Elementary Teaching

• Instructional Technology
• Internet-Based Education
• Teaching, Curriculum and Learning

Distance Education Opportunities

Required by Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education in GAMES

After you apply, allow one business day for us to establish your access to GAMES, where you'll complete these departmental requirements:

• Entrance exam(s):
  Master's Applicants:  None
  Doctoral Applicants:  GRE
• Minimum TOEFL:  Paper-550  Internet-79
• Three letters of recommendation
• Department application
• Resume
• Statement of goals
• Writing sample (doctorate only)
• Noyce teacher scholarship essay (NebraskaSCIENCE only)
• Use GAMES for online submission of materials.

Description

The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education offers master's and doctoral degrees that:

• Engage in and with current educational research.
• Fit individual needs.
• Offer rich opportunities to work with highly qualified faculty members who are actively engaged in cross-disciplinary scholarship focused on schools and communities.
• Challenge in breadth and depth to change and improve education for all.

For example, a student might work with a professor studying the relationships between teacher content knowledge and pedagogical understandings. Or, one could work with researchers examining the changing needs of Nebraska, the United States, and other parts of the world through multiple lenses such as multiculturalism; transnationalism; educational reform; policy implementation; second language acquisition; reading diagnosis and remediation; literacy, language, and culture; foreign language education; and instructional technologies.

Students will find new ways to view the work of teachers, teaching, learners, and learning. The coursework explores relationships across cultures and schooling, ethics, human well-being, and education for diversity; thus, fostering professional development alongside preparing people for positions of leadership in varied educational settings. The programs grow educational leaders who can "make a difference" for the future in multiple educational settings.

The department offers three full-time, 14-month Master of Arts in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, that includes courses to become a certified teacher in the State of Nebraska. These programs are structured in cohorts and students will proceed together in a collegial community of teacher learners. Learn more about these programs on our Master of Arts with an Emphasis website. Some funding is available through the NebraskaSCIENCE Scholarship program.

Some online courses are available.

Courses and More

• Education
• Great Plains Studies