Required Courses
Year One: 2022-2023
EDU 597 Developing Number Sense ★3 (Fall Term)
Number sense involves a wide range of number concepts and relationships that begin in infancy and can develop throughout ones lifetime. This course focuses on what number sense is, why it is important, and research-based strategies to support student understanding of number.
EDU 597 Supporting Student Mathematics Learning ★3 (Winter Term)
Teachers’ implicit assumptions about learning influence their decisions about the tasks chosen, questions asked, tools available, classroom setup, and assessments posed. In this course, teachers will be asked to examine their assumptions about mathematics learning alongside historical and contemporary research and perspectives on learning.
EDU 597 Culturally Responsive Mathematics Practices ★3 (Spring Term)
This course examines and develops culturally responsive teaching practices and explores regenerative mathematics in PreK-12 mathematics by drawing on perspectives and examples from Indigenous traditions and peoples, wisdom traditions, and mathematics education for social justice.
EDU 510 Fundamentals of Educational Research ★3 (Summer Term)
Explores the findings of educational research, and works to apply the results of research to educational problems. Focuses on conceptualizing methods of educational research to specific and individual educational sites and issues.
EDU 514 Planning for Educational Change ★3 (Summer Term)
Explores how educational research can enhance educational change toward school improvement and focuses on utilizing appropriate research methods to create a site-based research proposal for a specific site.
Year Two: 2023-24
EDU 597 Oral Language Difficulties: From Assessment to Intervention ★3 (Fall Term)
This course provides an understanding of child language development, theories, and the relationship between oral language ability, reading, spelling and writing.
EDU 597 Word Reading Difficulties: From Assessment to Intervention ★3 (Part A - Fall Term)
This course provides an understanding of word reading development and difficulties from the cognitive and educational psychology point of views.
EDU 597 Word Reading Difficulties: From Assessment to Intervention ★3 (Part B - Winter Term)
This course provides an understanding of word reading development and difficulties from the cognitive and educational psychology point of views.
EDU 597 Reading Comprehension Difficulties: From Assessment to Intervention ★3 (Winter Term)
This course focuses on current theories of reading comprehension, and the cognitive and language underpinnings of reading comprehension difficulties.
EDU 515 Conducting Educational Research ★3 (Spring Term)
A supervised research assignment to develop and apply knowledge and skills related to data collection, data analysis techniques and research report presentation.
EDU 900 Program Synthesis ★3 (Summer Term)
A reflection and synthesis of learning from the Master of Education in Educational Studies in relation to the concepts of leadership and school/educational improvement that are the foundations of the program.
Grading
The program uses the University of Alberta's 4-point scale grading system. For more information about the University of Alberta grading system, see the grading system at the Office of the Registrar.