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The Master of Education is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to become an effective leader within your field of expertise or area of professional development. The program has been designed to allow graduates of this program to demonstrate the following outcomes:
  1. Use a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with various stakeholders regarding education issues and trends

  2. Research and identify potential challenges to education through effective data collection methods, critical thinking and analysis

  3. Apply leadership and organization theory to develop collaborative partnerships with peers, colleagues, community leaders and parents

  4. Develop a fundamental understanding of technology integration techniques and methods, both in terms of instruction and management, and be able to demonstrate the enhanced value of technology in improving teaching and school administration

  5. Develop value-added, multi-dimensional instructional strategies that will enhance classroom learning

  6. Assume a leadership role in various problem-solving, decision-making practices and endeavors that can affect change in the education system

  7. Enhance, improve and introduce various assessment and evaluation methods as they relate to curriculum, program, and project planning, including the use of current technologies

  8. Gain the ability to identify, organize and implement project management and strategic planning processes and corresponding outcomes and contingencies

  9. Promote collegiality, community and good faith among constituents; to act in the best interests of students and their learning

  10. Represent to the education community as an "agent for change," applying skills and knowledge in a proactive and productive manner to achieve short and long-term goals
These outcomes represent the foundation of skills and knowledge needed to advance the various strategic change initiatives, present and proposed, that exist in the field of education. Outcomes would also include elevating awareness of the various roles that educator leaders must assume and embrace if effective change strategies are to succeed.

Potential career outcomes include:
  • Administration and Supervision

    • Business Manager
    • Career and Vocational Administration
    • Executive Director (NPO)
    • Higher Education
    • Mediator/Negotiator
    • Organizational Consultant
    • Principal
    • Program Director
    • Superintendent
    • Supervisor

  • Educator Leader

    • Adult Development Instructor
    • Adult Services Coordinator
    • Department Head
    • Executive Director (NPO)
    • Higher Education (instruction or administration)
    • Mediator/Negotiator
    • Project Administrator
    • Teacher Trainer

  • Education Technology

    • Department Supervisor
    • Instructional Design and Development
    • Instructor in Higher Education
    • Program Designer
    • Project Manager
    • Technical Coordinator
    • Technical Trainer
    • Technology Specialist


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