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