The Mathematics cohort is accepting applications for Fall with an application deadline of July 15 and Spring application deadline of November 15.

The Master of Education (MEd) in Elementary Mathematics Specialist degree program prepares teacher leaders who possess strong specialized content knowledge including a deep understanding of how elementary students learn and can apply such knowledge and understanding to their leadership and instructional practices. The program is considered Distance Education (DE) and offered off campus, at school sites in the region. Most courses are taught through a combination of face-to-face and online instruction with professors who are experts in their fields that bring experience teaching elementary school students using theoretical and research-based methods that promote student learning and engagement.

Career Enhancement

Advanced study to become a leader in elementary mathematics opens doors and provides opportunities for you to:

• Improve your daily mathematics instruction with your students
• Build instruction on recent research of how children learn math
• Teach mathematics that spans all disciplines in an elementary school classroom
• Be a leader in elementary mathematics at your school or district
• Support other teachers’ mathematics instruction
• Become a curriculum developer
• Work in informal mathematics education centers

“The experience and the hands-on collaboration really has impacted me as we learn from each other.”

–Vangela Eleazer, a master’s student in the elementary education program (math cohort)

Meet Vangela

What Our Alumni Have to Say

Diane Hunter ’13, ’16MED

“A Direct Connection from Coursework to My Classroom”

Vanessa Rossitz ’15MED

“A Flexible Program that Fit My Full-Time Teaching Schedule”