Graduate School of Education
Letter from the Dean
Dear Student:
Welcome to Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education. For over 100 years, Lesley has been at the forefront in supporting the growth and development of educators. Combining a depth of experiences in school communities, advanced scholarship and excellence in teaching, the Lesley faculty create classes that advance pedagogical understanding and classroom enactment. For students entering teaching for the first time, their program of study will ensure that their career begins with confidence and skill. For those seeking to enhance their initial practice, our wide range of programs offers the chance to move to a deeper understanding in areas that are especially relevant today, such as literacy, numeracy, second language acquisition, and special education.Lesley is also a creative place, building on a long-standing embrace of the centrality of the arts in the education of all children. Faculty offer a number of creative ways to support the learning of their students, from innovative approaches to delivering information to imagining new ways to think about the content area itself. The School of Education itself is continually evolving new ways to meet the demands we know teachers face on a daily basis.
Our commitment to diversity begins by offering a wide range of program design deliveries to meet the diverse needs of our learners. Courses are on campus in a traditional mode, regionally in a face-to-face mode and nationally in a variety of face-to-face and online formats. While demanding, the ability to take courses while teaching allows a direct link from our classroom to your clinical practice, creating conditions where what one learns today can affect a child tomorrow.
Students may take advantage of opportunities for advanced study in many fields that lead to initial and professional licenses, Master's degrees, Certificates of Advanced Graduate Study, PhDs, and Advanced Professional Certificates. Among the fields are Educational Leadership, Adult Learning, Literacy, Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Middle School Education; High School Education; Special Education; Creative Arts in Learning; Teacher of Visual Arts; Arts, Community, and Education; Integrated Teaching Through the Arts; Science; Mathematics; and Instructional Technology.
Join a community of learning whose alumni demonstrate excellence in education every day in K-12 schools all across the country. Join us in demonstrating that excellent teachers are the key in ensuring all children reach high levels of achievement.
Jonathon H. Gillette, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Education
updated 08/18/11 | 01:22 PM
