Teach in a Challenging and Rewarding Environment
With our Master’s degree program leading to initial licensure in High School Education, you will:
- Learn skills to work with diverse student populations
- Encounter the most current research and theory on adolescence and high schools
- Investigate formative and summative assessment, including developing assessment instruments and interpreting test data
- Think critically about the contemporary high school
- Broaden your subject area knowledge base in grades 8-12
- Engage with current educational technologies
- Conduct action research
Our M.Ed. in High School Education offers the following subject areas:
- English
- History
- Mathematics
- Political Science/Political Philosophy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- Physics
Key program information for M.Ed. in High School:
- 36 credits (11 courses, including a practicum)
- Courses taken at Lesley’s Cambridge, MA campus as well as in specified off-campus locations in a weekend cohort model
- Prerequisite: completion of a college or university’s requirements for a major in the discipline of the license sought, or have passed the MA Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) in the subject content area for the license sought
- Program approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
View the program of study and course descriptions for this program [PDF] in High School education.
SAMPLE PROGRAM COURSE
EEDUC 6201 Cultures of the High School
This course is designed to guide pre-service educators and others interested in how the role of schools in US society in the formation of the knowledge, strategies and dispositions fundamental to the practice of a middle and high school professional educator. Students will study the social educational philosophies underlying various proposals for the design and management of ideal schooling arrangements, and participate in learning projects. Course aims will be accomplished through the reading of primary source documents, open-ended and deliberative class discussions, and the completion of both formal and informal writing tasks.