LTACY-MSED - Literacy Teacher: Birth-Grade 6

EECE offers an MSEd program in Literacy Education leading to a NYS Professional Certificate as a Literacy Specialist, B–6. This competitive professional program requires a GPA of at least a 3.0 and an Initial Certificate as a classroom teacher as a part of the application.

Students beginning the program fall of 2015 and thereafter will take 33 credits of coursework that include foundations, diversity, pedagogy, content areas studies, literature studies, and specifically designed courses in the role of the literacy specialist, assessment and instruction, and a semester-long reading practicum with children.

Required coursework for the 33 credits of coursework is summarized in Table 3a. All other students will complete 39 credits of coursework. Table 3b summarizes the 39 credits of coursework. Because the students in this program are teachers, there is a strong emphasis on research with issues and a project related to literacy learning.