Consequently, all students enrolled in this program are required to have Internet access. While students will participate in various modes of learning, evaluation, and research, a significant focus of the M.Ed. Program is that students will develop those characteristics necessary to be effective leaders in various educational arenas. The Masters in Education curriculum is more than a stringing together of unrelated courses or separate competencies. Each of the six Thematic Units has been developed around these issues and, consequently, contributes to an innovative, high-quality teacher education program.
All students begin the program in the fall semester as a cohort.
This format has the added benefit of encouraging graduate students to establish and maintain a supportive network and a more systematic process for scheduling classes and moving through the program together. The main campus and all off-campus sites will follow IUP's published Summer School schedule. Further, there are no provisions for Transfer Credit, Individualized Instruction, or Workshops within this program. This team-taught Thematic Unit is designed to prepare graduate students with a strong theoretical and practical knowledge base of the community and the culture in which the school resides. The unit also emphasizes indirect educational variables such as community, cultural and language diversity that directly affect all public school learners.