Master in Education Degree

Teachers that participated in the Texas SEED program earned a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a Mathematics Education emphasis from UTA. The degree is offered in an accelerated, asynchronous and online format, consisting of 10 courses.

To understand more about UTA’s Accelerated online M.Ed. in C&I – Mathematics Education visit M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction – Mathematics Education (100% Accelerated Online) – College of Education – The University of Texas at Arlington.

Core Required Concentration (12 credit hours)
Course number	Course Name	Description
EDUC 5305	EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR 21ST CENTURY EC-12 STUDENTS.	Students gain understanding of the nature of learning and the purpose of education as the pedagogical foundation to teaching in any discipline. Students develop knowledge of state and national standards and apply these standards vertically and horizontally in preparing high quality teaching and learning experiences. Students gain experience critically analyzing disciplinary content, instructional models, lessons, curricula, and research literature. Students learn to construct and test instructional models using activities that focus attention on diversity, authentic assessments, intellectual, social and emotional development, interdisciplinary connections, and technology.
EDUC 5309	ADVANCED TEACHING MODELS FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS	Students engage in the advanced study and design of curriculum models with an understanding of cognitive development, pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and learning progressions. Students learn in-depth analyses of how students learn and how to appropriately differentiate instruction. Students learn culturally responsive teaching practices and gain skill in developing learning experiences that attend to teaching diverse learners.
EDUC 5394	UNDERSTANDING AND DESIGNING CLASSROOM RESEARCH	In this introductory course, students learn about different types of educational research methods and study designs that can be applied to real-world settings. Furthermore, students learn about how to write measurable research questions, ethically collect data, and be introduced to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods study designs. At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to understand the basics of educational research to determine whether it would be appropriate for implementation in a real-world authentic setting.
EDUC 5397	IMPLEMENTING AND DISSEMINATING CLASSROOM RESEARCH	In this advanced course, students will build on the knowledge to specifically focus on how to collect, analyze, and interpret different types of data grounded in a variety of educational research methods. This course is split into three sections focusing on quantitative data analyses/interpretations (e.g., correlations, t-tests, and regressions), qualitative data analyses/interpretations (e.g., thematic analysis, content analysis, and summative analysis), and mixed methods analyses/interpretations. At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to collect, analyze, and interpret different types of data commonly used in educational classrooms to make data driven decisions.

Support Area Concentration (18 credit hours)
Course number	Course Name	Description
MAED 5351	WHOLE NUMBERS, RATIONAL NUMBERS, & OPERATIONS.	In this course students engage in activities and problem solving on concepts related to whole numbers, rational numbers and operations. Students in the course will learn to utilize research-based, problem-based teaching methods to promote K-12 student understanding. Students will experience how K-12 students learn these concepts as they themselves engage in computation and problem-solving activities transferrable to classroom practice. In this course, students will engage in experiences to learn and teach their K-12 students on using numbers, number systems and their structure, operations and algorithms, quantitative reasoning, and technology.
MAED 5352	PATTERNS & ALGEBRA	This course engages students in problem-based teaching and curriculum development to help children learn problem solving and critical thinking with an emphasis on patterns, relations, functions, algebraic reasoning, analysis, and technology. The course incorporates research shown effective in helping children develop necessary skills for algebraic reasoning as a foundation for higher level mathematics learning.
MAED 5353	PROBABILITY & STATISTICS	In this course students will engage in learning experiences and readily usable curricula for teaching K-12 students concepts of probability and statistics, their applications, and technology. Students will examine K-12 student learning and research-based practices that best help them understand these mathematical concepts and that will promote their development of probabilistic reasoning abilities.
MAED 5354	PROBLEM SOLVING	In this course, students experience and practice innovative curricula for teaching and learning problem solving. Students engage in hands-on activities and apply various problem-solving techniques, using mathematical processes to reason mathematically, to solve mathematical problems, to make mathematical connections within and outside of mathematics, and to communicate mathematically. Students learn to identify relevant and irrelevant variables in problems and work through problems to arrive at meaningful solutions. Students examine research on ways to help K-12 students become effective problem solvers as transferrable to other mathematics topics and subjects across the curriculum.
MAED 5355	CONCEPTUAL GEOMETRY	In this course students will experience and incorporate active learning curricula that utilize a variety of manipulative materials, diagrams, models, and pictures to study geometry and spatial reasoning. The students will learn effective, research-based practices for teaching geometry and examine ways to best help K-12 students build geometric and spatial understandings as a foundation for later, more complex abstract visualizations.
MAED 5356	MEASUREMENT	This course focuses on inquiry-based, problem-based curricula that help K-12 students learn concepts of measurement including units of measure, standardization, and error. Students will learn to use teaching techniques that will promote K-12 students’ understanding as well as the application of measurement concepts to other subjects and to everyday life experiences.

To understand more about UTA’s Accelerated online M.Ed in C&I – Mathematics Education visit M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction – Mathematics Education (100% Accelerated Online) – College of Education – The University of Texas at Arlington.