What You'll Learn
Transform Students with an Online Master of Education
The Master of Education program propels your teaching and career forward, while equipping you to lead your learning community through justice and service. With a faith perspective and an emphasis on practical experience, Calvin offers a literacy concentration and inclusion concentration, both fully online.
Teach by Thinking Deeply and Acting Justly
The Master of Education online from Calvin University prepares students for responsive, visionary leadership in education. Designed for current K–12 educators, the program seeks to deepen knowledge in specialty areas. Calvin University’s program teaches educators to create diverse, inclusive, and sustainable environments for learning.
The master’s degree in education online frames knowledge and experience with the lenses of community, service, and justice. Calvin encourages deep thinking to help you become a teacher who can rise to meet the unique challenges of today’s education system.
What Makes This Program Great
- Complete in as little as 20 months
- 2 in-demand specializations
- Prepares literacy students for teaching endorsement
- No GRE/GMAT required
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- Total estimated tuition, not including fees: $17,550-$18,720
- Financial aid is available
- No GRE/GMAT required
Duration
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What You’ll Learn
Once you complete the program, you’ll be able to:
- Choose appropriate technologies to enhance learning activities.
- Design and lead professional teaching and learning experiences.
- Collect and use data to support student learning.
- Understand complex issues in your field of specialization.
- Explain how particular orientations, beliefs, and values shape approaches to education.
Choose From Two Concentrations
The Master of Education online program consists of 30 to 32 credit hours, depending on whether you choose the literacy concentration or inclusion concentration. Common courses provide a knowledge foundation that serves students in their concentrations.
Courses combine theoretical knowledge with real-world skills, including a practicum in your area if you’re seeking state endorsement
Inclusion Concentration
Diverse student populations make a focus on inclusion pivotal for teacher and student success. Learn to develop and propose programs that integrate culturally responsive practices and promote an inclusive school culture.
Our program prepares you to foster collaboration among parents, teachers, administrators, and more to develop plans that work for everyone in the school community.
Course Highlights
Fostering collaboration, our coursework prepares educators to design and support inclusive initiatives in classrooms and schools.
EDUC 555 Designing Instruction for Successful Learning
This course will explore critical strategies for successful inclusive teaching practices that support all learners. Educators will refine their understanding of culturally responsive educational design as they research accessible curricular programs and evidence-based practices for successful learning. Emphasis will be placed on locating and evaluating the quality of instructional programs or practices, planning with Universal Design for Learning, and exploring faith-based perspectives to promote inclusion. An ongoing curricular design project will allow educators to develop units or professional learning opportunities informed by inclusive programs and practices.
EDUC 556 Perspectives, Programs & Policies: Developing Inclusive Schools
How do educators develop and sustain a culturally responsive and inclusive school culture? What is a vision of Christ-centered educational programs and services where all students flourish? Educators in this course will trace the historical, ethical, political, religious, and research literature on policies, programs and practices of inclusive school communities. Through literature, policy, and field case analysis, they will learn about societal and community perspectives and develop skills and dispositions related to program development, implementation, and evaluation that advocate for and respond to all learners and their stakeholders.
Literacy Concentration
Literacy prepares students for success in all areas of education. Explore how to meet the needs of diverse learners when you earn a master’s degree with a literacy concentration.
You'll be prepared to recognize and diagnose reading difficulties, develop plans that meet the individualized needs of students, and encourage other educators to use research-backed literacy education practices.
K-12 Reading Specialist teaching endorsement
Michigan-certified teachers who successfully complete this program and pass the Reading Specialist MTTC test will qualify for the K-12 Reading Specialist teaching endorsement.
Course Spotlight
EDUC 542 Reading Assessment and Responsive Instruction
In this course, participants consider the developmental, socio-cultural and cognitive aspects of literacy teaching with students of all ages. The course presents and critiques current positions from which literacy instruction is designed and delivered. It develops participants’ pedagogy as they learn to assess a reader’s abilities and develop instructional responses. Course participants undertake a case study to complement the course readings, discussion and other learning. Course objectives are met through a deep engagement with a student who has been identified as an “at risk” reader.
EDUC 544 The Early Literacy Learner
This course examines the social practices and cognitive development by which children progress towards independent abilities to participate in reading activity. Course participants identify young learner’s diverse social-cultural memberships, language abilities and the environmentally influenced experiences that children bring to school. Participants explore the concepts and abilities necessary for the development of new literacy learners. Using research, theory and experience, participants explore, analyze, and practice classroom pedagogies that best nourish each literacy learner’s foundation towards independent abilities for reading and writing.
Going to a college where the foundation was the Christian faith, I was able to grow in that. Learning how to teach through that lens was very important to me. Being able to carry my Christian values into my classroom and to have that shaping through the education program at Calvin was very, very helpful.
Median annual pay in 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Special Education Teacher
Curriculum Specialist
Other Master of Education career paths:
- Inclusion specialist
- School administrator
- Literacy specialist
- Literacy coach
- Literacy advisor
Become a Visionary Educational Leader
Choosing from a literacy concentration or inclusion specialist concentration allows you to grow your instructional leadership skills and choose from a variety of jobs.
With a literacy concentration, you will be prepared for careers that transform the reading capabilities of students of all ages and backgrounds. An inclusion concentration will prepare you to lead other educational professionals by creating practices and programs that encourage an inclusive environment.
Either way, you'll leave prepared to lead your learning community through justice and service.
How to Apply
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Admissions Requirements
- Degree and Minimum GPA: Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university with a minimum 2.8 GPA.
- Transcripts: Applicants must submit an official transcript from the institution that granted their bachelor’s degree as well as unofficial transcripts from any other credit-granting institution. An official transcript is also required for any graduate work an applicant would like considered for transfer credit. Transcripts must demonstrate a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 on a 4.0 scale.
- Official GMAT/GRE: Not required.
- Additional Requirements: Two letters of professional recommendation, a resume, a professional essay detailing the applicant’s professional goals, and documented teacher certification or eligibility for teacher certification
- International Students: This degree is 100% online, international students are not eligible to obtain a Visa for this program.
Your Support Network
Your faculty will encourage deep thinking that prepares you to meet the challenges of today’s education system.
Professors are approachable and relatable. They recognize us as colleagues, as full-time teachers taking classes part-time. They gave a lot of consideration for the busyness of our lives. They were willing to be flexible yet professional.
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FAQ
New students may apply for scholarships and financial assistance.
Yes. You must choose between the literacy and the inclusion concentration.
Each program is different, but we strive to be as flexible as possible when helping you achieve your goals. For more information, contact us.
While our curriculum is taught from a Christian perspective, being a Christian is not required to apply to Calvin University.