$500 Scholarship for New M.Ed. Students Starting March 2021*
Masters of Education in Moderate Disabilities
Our 36-credit M.Ed. in Moderate Disabilities prepares you for your Initial License to work with children in grades PreK-8 with moderate disabilities who participate in integrated or self-contained classrooms. Through coursework and field-based experiences, you develop an understanding of subject matter knowledge, curriculum design, instructional strategies, observation and assessment, communication, and collaboration with families and the community.
This program is approved by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and is aligned with the Massachusetts Professional Standards for Teachers and Subject Matter Knowledge requirements.
Initial Licensure students who decide not to pursue their license will still be able to complete their degree as a personalized non-licensure master’s degree.
* Offer only applies to new students who start in the March 2021 session. Merrimack College reserves the right to amend this offer at any time.
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Key Features of our M. Ed. In Moderate Disabilities include:
What Skills Will You Develop?
To earn your Master’s of Education in Moderate Disabilities, you will complete 9 courses including a field practicum for a total of 36 credit hours. Online courses are 8 weeks long and will include preparation for the MTEL.
- ED 6500G – Pre-Practicum Field-Based Experience I
- ED 6505G – Pre-Practicum Field-Based Experience II
- To help teachers effectively carry out their responsibility for the teaching and learning of ELLs as well as to understand the social and cultural issues that contribute to and impact schooling for ELLs.
- To expand teachers’ knowledge of how language functions within academic content teaching and learning, and how children and adolescents acquire a second language.
- Provide teachers practical research-based protocols, methods, and strategies to integrate subject area content, language, and literacy development using the Massachusetts English Language Development (ELD) standards and the World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) standards to support ELL students’ success in meeting standards of the 2011 Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks as well as the Common Core content standards.
- ED 6507G – Pre-Practicum Field-Based Experience III
- ED 6510G – Practicum Seminar