Literacy Education, MA
The Department of Teaching and Learning offers Master's degrees in Literacy Education: Birth through Grade 6 and Grades 5 through 12. These programs provide certified classroom teachers with the opportunity to earn the New York State Literacy Specialist Certificate. These curricula are designed to prepare classroom teachers at the early childhood, elementary levels, or content area teachers at middle school and high school levels to address the needs of all their students by integrating strategic teaching of reading and writing throughout their speciality. The program also focuses on the role of the literacy specialist in the whole-school context and assists each student in developing the competence and the confidence needed to assume such a role. Full-time students can finish in two years.
Teaching and Learning with a focus on Literacy Education, PhD
Doctoral programs in the Department of Teaching and Learning aim to prepare students to assume a variety of leading roles in education, research, and policy across the United States and throughout the world. Built on the traditions and achievements of the oldest graduate school of pedagogy in the United States—founded in 1890—the department’s programs are designed to draw on four sources of learning: