Graduate Programs

You have discovered your interests, your strengths, and your talent for teaching.  A graduate degree will develop these further.

Description of Program

The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education offers master and doctoral degrees that:

• Engage in and with current educational research;
• Fit individual needs;
• Offer rich opportunities to work with highly qualified faculty members who are actively engaged in cross-disciplinary scholarship focused on schools and communities; and,
• Challenge in breadth and depth to change and improve education for all.

For example, you might work with a professor studying the relationships between teacher content knowledge and pedagogical understandings. Or, you could work with researchers examining the changing needs of Nebraska, the United States, and other parts of the world through multiple lenses such as multi-culturalism, transnationalism, educational reform, policy implementation, second language acquisition, reading diagnosis and remediation, literacy, language, and culture, foreign language education, and instructional technologies. Or, you will find new ways to view the work of teachers, teaching, learners, and learning. Our coursework explores relationships across cultures and schooling, ethics, human well being, and education for diversity, thus fostering professional development alongside preparing people for positions of leadership in varied educational settings. Our programs grow educational leaders who can "make a difference" for the future.

Get to Know Some of Our Faculty

 

Potential Opportunities to Explore as a Grad Student:

Student Research Conference: TLTE organizes and promotes undergraduate and graduate CEHS students to share their work with fellow students, faculty, and other educators and community members. The basic aim of the annual event held each fall is to act as a teaching exercise supporting and offering students an opportunity to showcase their work and dialogue with colleagues about important issues in education. More...

The Great Plains Institute of Reading and Writing: The institute provides the tools and guidance leading to the achievement of critical literacy in the local community, the Great Plains Region, and the nation at-large. The goal of the Institute is to help all students achieve critical literacy, which will enable them to be successful in the information-based society of the 21st century. One way to attain this goal is for the Institute to be a training site for current and future practitioners. More...

Practitioner Inquiry Website: This site is a resource for master and doctoral level students in TLTE working as practitioners in schools and other educational settings planning to conduct a small-scale systematic inquiry. More...