Education, Early Childhood Education (Birth - Grade 2), M.S.

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Please note that this program is only offered when enrollment numbers allow: minimum of 10 students required.

Program Description

This Master’s degree program is open to applicants who have their initial teaching certification in Early Childhood Education, Childhood Education, Childhood Education with Special Education, or Special Subjects (Birth-Grade 2). The program is designed to allow students with initial certification in Early Childhood Education to obtain professional certification in Early Childhood Education and to allow students with other areas of initial certification to obtain professional certification in that area and to add initial certification in Early Childhood Education.

Please visit http://www.geneseo.edu/graduate_admissions for detailed information about the application process.

Program Requirements

A. Foundational Courses: 6 credits

(must be completed by all students)

EDUC 601 - Nature of Learning: Philosophical and Pyschological Foundations of Education Credit(s): 3
or
EDUC 603 - The School and Society Credit(s): 3
EDUC 604 - Educational Research and Methodology Credit(s): 3

B. Pedagogical Content Courses: 15-18 credits

ECED 641 - Child Development and Assessment in Early Education Credit(s): 3
ECED 642 - Advanced Curriculum Development in Early Education Credit(s): 3
ECED 643 - Policy Issues and Programs in Early Education Credit(s): 3
ECED 644 - Family Relations in Early Education Credit(s): 3
ECED 646 - Language and Literacy Across the Early Childhood Curriculum Credit(s): 3
ECED 645 - Action Research Seminar in Early Education Credit(s): 3 (optional) *

C. Electives: 3-6 credits

Electives under advisement selected from any graduate course offering

D. Internship: 6 credits

ECED 647 - Leadership/Inquiry Internship in Early Education Credit(s): 2 semester hours to be repeated in 1 or more settings for 6 hours
(a) To be taken in 2-hour segments and repeated in 1 or more setting for 6 hours;
(b) Includes minimum of 50 hours plus 20 days in early childhood classroom at prekindergarten, kindergarten, and grade 1 or 2 levels, if no prior experiences at these levels

E. Culminating Experience:

A comprehensive examination, OR a videotape of a research/leadership project presentation plus a project paper (*requires ECED 645 ), OR a thesis under the guidance of an advisor (*requires ECED 645 ).

Total: 33-39 credits

For descriptions of graduate courses visit: https://knightweb.geneseo.edu, then click on Course Catalog and follow the links to select Graduate for Level and select by appropriate course prefix for Subject.