Master of Education Program Goals
MASTER OF EDUCATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
Program Goals
The M.Ed. learning goals specify competencies that provide a foundation for graduates.
Successful graduates of the program should be able to:
Ensure the Availability of Appropriate Curricula for Learners by:
- Setting learning goals and objectives for the classroom
- Identifying the instructional needs of individual learners based on their developmental profile and personal contexts
- Selecting, adapting and/or creating curricular materials that meet the instructional needs of individual learners
- Understanding the impact of assessment on curriculum and its relationship to curriculum design
Create an Effective Learning Environment by:
- Arranging the classroom in ways that meet regulatory requirements, support instruction, and promote individual and collaborative learning
- Establishing a welcoming learning environment that embraces diversity, collaboration, mutual respect and personal responsibility and integrates technology to enhance teaching and learning
Employ Instructional Approaches That Support Learning by:
- Creating plans that guide instructional decisions
- Selecting instructional activities and materials that enable learners to meet the established instructional goals
- Employing instructional approaches that foster a learner’s critical thinking, global awareness, and communication and self-management skills
- Structuring opportunities for student-directed inquiry and the exploration of interdisciplinary connections
- Utilizing instructional technology to create authentic learning opportunities and enhance teaching and learning
- Ensuring exposure to real world questions and issues that offer perspectives beyond the learner’s local experiences
Assess and Provide Feedback on Learner Growth and Development by:
- Identifying appropriate measures for assessing learning
- Administering standardized and teacher-designed formative and summative assessments appropriate to the learner and the instructional purpose
- Monitoring the learner’s progress against external and teacher-set objectively-established metrics
- Fostering student self-reflection and self-assessment
- Using assessment results to plan future instruction
- Providing effective feedback to students, and using feedback to modify teaching and learning activities
Engage in Continuing Professional Development by:
- Reflecting on the impact of their professional actions on learners, the school, their colleagues, and others in the community of interests
- Seeking opportunities to advance their professional knowledge and skills to better meet learner needs
- Engaging in classroom-based research to improve curricular and instructional decision making