Masters Degree and/or Certification-Endorsement Program
A. EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION (24 semester credit hours required)
EDAD 800 Schooling and Administration 6
(on-campus)
EDAD 810 Human Relations Training and Foundations of Building
Administration* 6 (on-campus)
EDAD 811s Practicum
in Educational Administration
3 (on-line)
EDAD 981s Introduction
to Research 3 (on-line)
EDAD Electives** 6 (on-line)
Example: EDAD 835s School Business
Management
(offered in Fall, Spring,
& Summer), EDAD
837s School Law (offered in
the Fall)
B. CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION (6 semester credit hours required)
(Courses should pertain to level for which you are seeking certification)
C&I course related to curriculum foundations** 3 (on-line)
Example: CURR 801s Curriculum
Improvement: Theory, Research, and Practice (offered in Spring
starting in 2001)
C&I course related to improvement of
instruction** 3 (on-line)
C. SUPPORT AREA (3 semester credit hours required) (on-line)
Credit must be earned in areas
other than Educational Administration or Curriculum and Instruction**
D. APPROVED ELECTIVES (3 semester credit hours required) (on-line)
Elective** 3
Example: CURR 861s Education for a Pluralistic Society: Foundation
and Issues or CURR 893s Applied Instructional Technology
E. OTHER PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
* EDAD 810 meets Human Relations Training requirement.
Option II Paper or equivalent.
Written Comprehensive Examination.
F. ADDITIONAL STATE REQUIREMENTS (Not to be included in Program of Studies)
For Nebraska administrative certification and endorsement, students must also satisfy additional state requirements, including but not limited to eligibility for a standard teaching certificate, satisfactory scores on the Pre-Professional Skills Test, academic preparation in special education, college or university training in human relations, and two years of successful teaching experience at the appropriate grade level.
Also, those seeking PreK-12 endorsement, or endorsement at a different level from which they were prepared for teaching, must complete a minimum of nine graduate semester credit hours of additional coursework beyond the thirty-six required for the principal endorsement at the level at which they were prepared to teach. The nine credit hours shall include preparation appropriate for the additional level.
Training in Human Relations (Met by EDAD 810):
EDAD 990 - Workshop: International and Multicultural
Education or
C&I 835 - Ethnic Minorities and AmericanEducation or
C&I 861 - Education for a Pluralistic Society or
C&I 893 - Workshop: Multicultural Literatures in Reader Response
Classrooms
Special Education (3 cr.hr.)
SPED 801 - Accommodating Exceptional Learners
in the Classroom
SPED 856 - Supervising Special Education (Recommended)
** Advisor's prior approval required.
January 1994
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