Middle School Education, M.Ed.

The required courses are:

• ED 6030 - Technology and Education: Applications and Implications (3) *
• ED 6050 - Middle School Methods of Teaching Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines (3) *
• ED 6150 - Field Experiences and Action Research (3)
• ED 6300 - Child and Adolescent Development in Education (3)
• ED 6450 - Foundations of Special Education (3)
• ED 6770 - The Middle School: Foundations, Philosophy, and Structure (3) *
• ED 7825 - Graduate Student Teaching in the Middle School (10)
• ED 7900 - Graduate Integrated Student Teaching Seminar: Classroom Planning, Management, and Assessment (3)
• ED 7910 - The Professional Semester Portfolio (1)

Middle school education students also take the certification area methods course: (3)

• ED 6160 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Mathematics (3) *
• ED 6260 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Science (3) *
• ED 6360 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Social Studies (3) *
• ED 6460 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School English (3) *

Total: 35 graduate credit hours

Note(s):

*Co-listed as a 4000-level undergraduate course. Teacher candidates may apply up to nine credit hours of the following co-listed courses to the graduate degree: ED 4010/ED 6010 , ED 4020/ED 6020 , ED 4030/ED 6030 . For graduate credit, these courses must be taken at the 6000-level, which requires that those teacher candidates taking the course for graduate credit, complete additional work at an accelerated level appropriate for graduate credit, and that the additional work required for graduate credit is reflected in the course syllabus. Courses taken at the 4000-level do not apply to the M.Ed. degree. For the M.Ed., the student must take the course at the 6000-level or take another graduate course in that domain of the M.Ed. core.

Rockhurst University meets the Missouri 168.400 requirement by:

Rockhurst University meets the Missouri 168.400 requirement by allowing teacher candidates who have been employed for at least two years as a full-time teacher assistant to bypass student teaching. Instead, such teacher candidates must take ED 7900 - Graduate Integrated Student Teaching Seminar: Classroom Planning, Management, and Assessment  (3), and the Professional Semester Portfolio course (1), as well as 10 hours of additional elective courses offered in the Rockhurst University Master of Education program to fulfill degree requirements.