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Program Overview
Secondary Education graduates hold teaching positions in the United States and around the world. They find teaching jobs in public, private, and charter schools-typically the jobs they want, in the places they prefer.
Collaborate with faculty on current research and gain invaluable experience teaching at the middle and high school levels. Specialize in the area you plan to teach in with a 2-year program that includes licensure. Deepen your understanding of subject matter for teaching, focusing on eliciting students' ideas about subject matter and connecting students' ideas to that subject matter, all while partnering with schools as a member of a teaching team.
- Secondary licensure in Grades 6-12
- Social Studies
- Science (biology, chemistry, earth science, physics)
- Mathematics
- English
- Licensure in Grades K-12
- Licensure in Grades preK-12
Careers
Of job-seeking Secondary Education graduates, 96% were employed or attending graduate school within four months of graduation. Examples of careers for program graduates:
- Eighth Grade Science Teacher, Jefferson Middle School, Champaign, Illinois
- English Teacher, Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, California
- History Teacher, IB School Quito, Ecuador
- Science Teacher, Hume-Fogg High School, Nashville, Tennessee
- Teaching Assistant, Fulbright Western Hemisphere, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Program Facts
Program Director: Heather Johnson
Admissions Coordinator: Erica Bodden
Admission Term: Fall (2-year program)
Credit Hours: 30 hours for those seeking licensure in Music; 33 hours for those seeking licensure in Math, Science, Social Studies, and World Languages; 36 hours for those seeking licensure in English
Application Dates
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Application Deadline 1
January 3
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Application Deadline 2
February 3
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Rolling Admissions
After February 3*
*Applications received after the Feb 3 second deadline are reviewed on a rolling basis and accepted as space and funds allow.
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Program Curriculum
There are two tracks to the Secondary Education degree, allowing you to complete the second year of the master's degree in either a traditional student teaching model or a job-embedded approach.
Making your choice between student teaching or the job-embedded pathway is a decision you can make after you have had some field experience in your first year.
Coursework
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
As a secondary education program, our mission is to engage teacher candidates in justice-oriented, disciplinary pedagogies. We work to understand and disrupt the systemic inequities in our schools and society. We care deeply that teacher candidates bring their humanity to this work, in a way that develops and sustains their cultural identities.
Our vision is to prepare teachers to teach toward a more just society, to build teachers who embrace their students' humanity as they:
- bridge theoretical and practical models for teaching,
- implement curricula focused on rigor, joy, and socio-political consciousness,
- develop a commitment to work toward educational equity and access, and
- envision their role in working toward productive system-level change.
Our vision embraces the notion that our students are both honoring their own positionality and seeking to understand and embrace the same in their students.