General Program Requirements
You have the opportunity to earn a Master in Education (M. Ed.) or a Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) degree in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Teacher Leadership for School Improvement. Both degrees require educators to be successful in the following three areas. Once admitted into the TLSI program, you will be sent an official program of study form that you will complete in consultation with a faculty advisor.
Teacher Leadership for School Improvement Coursework
All TLSI educators expand their knowledge, skills, and dispositions as we work toward the goal of teacher leadership for school improvement. Specifically you will work on knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to instructional practices, inquiry-based research, and teacher leadership and advocacy. The TLSI common coursework includes:
Guided Teacher Inquiry (inquiry-based research)
Teacher Leadership (teacher leadership and advocacy)
Transforming the Curriculum (instructional practices and teacher leadership and advocacy)
Culturally Responsive Classroom Management (instructional practices)
Specialization Areas
Along with the TLSI core, you will have the opportunity to advance your knowledge in a specialization area.
Educational Technology
- The Internet in K-12 Instruction
- Designing Technology Rich Curriculum
- Teaching Media Literacy with the Internet
Interdisciplinary (combination of courses from all listed specializations plus the following):
- Education and American Culture
- Cross-Cultural Communication for Teachers
Mathematics Education (Secondary)
- EDG 6931, Classroom Contexts that Support Self-Regulated Learning and Mathematical Understanding (Spring 2)
- MAE 6313, Problem Solving in School Mathematics (Spring)
- EDG 6931, Assessment Practices in the Mathematics Classroom (Fall)
- EDG 6931, Teaching Mathematics for Understanding (Spring)
- Teaching Multiliteracies
- Teaching Media Literacy with the Internet
- Teaching Digital Storytelling
Reading – 5-course sequence that can lead to Florida state-approved reading endorsement
- Teaching Reading in Elementary Schools
- Teaching Reading in Secondary Schools
- Diagnosis of Reading Difficulties
- Remediation of Reading Difficulties
- Reading Practicum
Science Education (Secondary)
- Scientific Practices I: Inquiry and Evidence
- Scientific Practices II: Argumentation and Modeling
Teacher Leadership for School Improvement Portfolio
As part of the job-embedded element of this program, you will be creating a portfolio providing evidence of your growth in the TLSI program goals. Your work in creating the TLSI portfolio fulfills part of your degree requirements.
