Online Master's Degree in Educational Administration, M.Ed.

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The University of Massachusetts Lowell is pleased to announce that its Master of Education Degree in Educational Administration is available entirely online. Offered through the University's Graduate School of Education, the M.Ed. in Educational Administration program is designed to meet the needs of experienced practitioners who wish to broaden and deepen their professional knowledge and to expand the contributions they can make to education. Candidates who seek to enroll in this degree program should hold a teaching license in their state or have K-12 classroom teaching experience in a private education setting.

First-time students should register using the Non-Degree Course Registration Form for NEW Students.

For more detailed information, visit the Graduate School of Education's website at http://www.uml.edu/gse

For academic advising on this degree program, email edoffice@uml.edu

Please note: Graduate students will be assessed a "First Year Student Services Fee" upon matriculation into a graduate degree or certificate program. Please see the Accounts Receivable website for more information.

*To build a systematic knowledge base, it is recommended that courses designated with an asterisk be taken before other courses.

**This course can be taken after 18 credits have been completed and requires the permission of the instructor.

***This course must be taken at the end of the program. It may be taken in conjunction with one other course only.

Course Descriptions

01.625 Organization of Schools and School Systems

This course is designed to help students understand the organizational dynamics of schools. The knowledge gained shoud assist students inidentifying and suggesting alternatives to programmatic and behavioral regularities found in a school or human service organization. 3 credits.

01.630 Educating Diverse Populations

"Educating Diverse Populations" is designed to prepare experienced educators to provide effective leadership in a diverse community. Drawing from the Graduate School of Education's conceptual framework of "Education for Transformation", students will be expected to: examine their own cultural heritage and experiences; gain increased understanding of equity issues concerning race, language, gender, sexual orientation, and special education needs; develop new insights for culturally responsive pedagogy; assess alternative strategies for facing illustrative conflicts in culturally diverse school settings; and consider how to ameliorate the pervasive impact of poverty on children in today's schools. 3 credits.

04.650 Capstone Project: Advanced Programs

Students will have the opportunity to develop a teacher work sample consisting of work in six major areas: (10 contextual factors, (2) learning goals, (3) assessment plan, (4) design for instruction, (5) analysis of student learning, and (6) reflection. 3 credits.

05.622 Financial Aspects of Educational Administration

Examines how moral and financial resources are marshaled and managed to meet needs of schools and human service agencies. Includes legal, economic and organizational analysis, program definition, budgeting, management and evaluation. 3 credits.

05.623 School Law

Understanding and research of legal issues, and resolutions, pertinent to educational administrators. Ethical and creative practice of "preventive law." 3 credits.

05.638 Planning, Technology and School Improvement

This course helps educators develop a broad grasp of the educational possibilities and concerns the Internet raises, for K-12 educators as well as those in higher education. Through the course, students develop in-depth knowledge of Internet resources and problems related to a specific issue of professional interest. 3 credits. Special Notes: EA, CI elective

05.642 Principles of Supervision

The interdisciplinary foundations of supervision: the function of theory, research on change, individual and group relationships in organizations, staff influence processes, talent utilization, and evaluations. 3 credits.

05.643 Principalship PK - 12

The scope of the principal's role, including ethical dilemmas and practical realities, is examined by shadowing, case studies, simulation, literature review and written analyses. Participants identify and evaluate the effects of alternative styles of principals. 3 credits.

05.658 Role of the Curriculum and Instructional Leader

This seminar reviews works on leadership by major contemporary writers including Burns, Kellerman, Maccoby, and Peters & Waterman. 3 credits.

07.541 Practitioner Action Research

This course examines how action research helps educators to learn to explore pressing classroom and school issues in systematic ways. Action research provides educators with opportunities to deepen their knowledge and skills as reflective practitioners, allowing them to contribute to the achievement of students and the improvement of schools. 3 credits.

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