M.S. Ed. Secondary Education: Sciences

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As part of a reform movement in science, the National Science Standards (NRC, 1996) recommend that science is taught to achieve students’ scientific understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity. Reform classroom practices should give students the opportunity to engage in hands-on, minds-on scientific inquiry and to experience how scientists develop conjectures about the world in justifying assertions and a base from which to reason and model data they encounter in real life. The Graduate Leading Teacher Program in Secondary Science will provide you with opportunities to develop the knowledge and teaching practices essential in educating science students for the 21st century.

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The Leading Teacher Program- Secondary Education is designed to prepare the nation’s secondary school teachers. The program’s coursework includes professional education in areas of concentration that includes English, K-12 Latin, Social Studies, Mathematics, and the Sciences.

The curriculum meets Pennsylvania standards as well as the standards of national professional organizations. All coursework, projects and fieldwork in the program reflect the School of Education’s conceptual framework themes of technology, diversity and leadership.

Note: Course Sequences have changed effective Fall 2011 to reflect new requirements from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Any student beginning the program Fall 2011 is subject to the new PDE requirements.

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Alexandra Santau, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Instruction and Leadership
102E Canevin Hall
p: 412.396.4516
f:  412.396.5388
santaua@duq.edu

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