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Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum and Instruction: Integrated Teaching Through the Arts (PreK-2 or 1-6): MA Only

Professional Licensure Program—Massachusetts

Learn strategies for integrating arts into the curriculum for improved student learning across populations while preparing for your Professional license at either the Early Childhood (PreK-2) or Elementary (1-6) level.

Enhance and Enliven Learning with the Arts

Learn to develop effective teaching strategies to meet the challenges of today’s educational climate. Address the needs of all learners by integrating arts into the curriculum, allowing students to demonstrate and construct understanding of academic content through art. Examine theories and practices of arts integration, critical pedagogy, assessment, technology, multicultural education, art and culture in community, and arts disciplines, including music, visual art, poetry, storytelling, drama, and creative movement.

Program of study and course descriptions [PDF] for this ITA program.

Key program information:

  • The program consists of 33 credits of core education courses and integrated arts courses
  • Program prerequisite: Massachusetts Initial license in Early Childhood or Elementary Education
  • Program leads to Professional licensure at either the PreK-2 or 1-6 level
  • Program is aligned to National Board of Professional Teacher Standards (NBPTS), state, and Common Core standards
  • Classes held at Lesley’s Cambridge, MA, campus in a combination of weekly and intensive weekend formats
  • For this program offered outside Massachusetts, see M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction: Integrated Teaching Through the Arts

 

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    SAMPLE PROGRAM COURSE

    EARTS 6008 Arts and Technology
    This course will engage students in arts-based technology, using a variety of software programs. Students will gain an understanding of technology and its many applications across the disciplines and in the world around them. Working collaboratively and/or independently, students will use technology in a caring, stimulating, safe, and creative learning environment.

     

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    Faculty Karen Frostig

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    VOICES FROM THE FIELD

    The Creative Arts in Learning Division conducted a study to research the effectiveness of arts in education. The study, funded by the Ford Foundation and entitled Voices From the Field, was designed to explore the impact of the Integrated Teaching Through the Arts Master's program, which has produced more than 10,000 graduates and is offered in 23 states.

    Graduates report that using the arts can provide multiple and stimulating points of access to curriculum and increase retention and depth of student learning. Approximately 90 percent also said the arts enhanced learning for special needs, gifted and talented, economically disadvantaged, and culturally/linguistically diverse students.

    Download a copy of the report [PDF].