Early Childhood Elementary Secondary Graduate Special Programs Special Education Master of Science, Teacher Education Bemidji State University's Department of Professional Education is committed to high-quality graduate education for teachers. To achieve this goal, the curriculum and instruction master's degree program has been redesigned to meet six program standards that have been adapted from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards . Six core courses in the new program address each standard and provide a sound foundation for advanced study. The remainder of the program is devoted to advanced study in the teacher's content area. Thus the Master of Science, Teacher Education degree promotes the scholarly development of professional teachers who directly influence the learning process of pre-school through secondary students.
Teacher are committed to students and their learning.
ED 6107 Advanced Educational Psychology Educational Psychology is the study of how individuals are alike and different in terms of development, learning, and motivation. Cognitive, intellectual, psychosocial, and moral developmental theories and behavioral, information processing, and constructivist theories of learning are analyzed and transformed into effective teaching practices. Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students. ED 6334 Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Instruction is the study of how content knowledge is created, organized, linked to other disciplines and applied to real-world settings. Focus is on how to convey and reveal content knowledge to students by creating multiple paths of learning.