Master of Arts in Education (MAED) Program Learning Outcomes

The MAED program helps established professional educators develop skills to become exemplary educators by enhancing their teaching abilities, keeping them up-to-date with recent developments in the educational field, and enabling them to use current technologies in their classroom.

1. Integrate Intentional Design: Candidates have knowledge to design preventive and responsive services that promote academic skill development, resilience, and positive behavior, support socialization and adaptive skills, enhance mental and behavioral health, and respond to culture and context.

2. Apply Disciplinary Competencies: Candidates understand and utilize various assessment methods for identifying strengths and needs; developing effective interventions, services, and programs; and measuring progress and outcomes within a multitiered system of supports.

3. Model Ethical Leadership: Candidates provide services consistent with ethical, legal, and professional standards; engage in responsive ethical and professional decision-making; collaborate with other professionals; and apply professional work characteristics needed for effective practice as servant leaders within school psychology.

4. Exercise Informed Reflection: Candidates understand principles related to social-emotional well-being, self-care, and apply professional work characteristics needed for effective practice as school psychologists, including responsibility, adaptability, initiative, dependability, and respect for human diversity.

5. Promote Active Learning: Candidates promote preventive and responsive services that enhance learning, mental and behavioral health, and psychological and physical safety.