M.S. Ed. Secondary Education: Social Studies
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According to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS, 1992), “the primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.” As a teaching candidate in the Graduate Leading Teacher Program in Secondary Social Studies, you will have the opportunity to develop ideas and practices that will support this imperative of democratic citizenship.
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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.
