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Tomorrow’s campus and district leaders are being developed in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas.
The Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction enhances your knowledge and expertise by combining theoretical perspectives and research-based practices with multiple opportunities for field-based projects and action research. This helps you make strategic decisions about effective practices in a private or public school setting.
Our comprehensive curriculum allows you to select a specialization from a wide range of areas related to curriculum and instruction, including:
Additionally, it’s possible to customize an area of specialization to your professional needs.
UNT provides a wide variety of services exclusively for graduate students. The Graduate Student Writing Support office can help you with writing, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research offers assistance with statistical analyses.
The Toulouse Graduate School® offers several professional development workshops, including a Thesis Boot Camp. Many of the workshops are available online for your convenience.
You should follow the application procedures detailed on the graduate school website and the departmental master’s in Curriculum and Instruction program site.
The program is dedicated to serving all state- certified teachers, as well as qualified applicants, from within and outside Texas and the U.S.
Professionals in fields other than education also will be considered.
You must meet the graduate school’s admission requirements and a specific set of departmental requirements when applying to the master’s program. For graduate school requirements, visit the UNT catalog website or our website.
The department’s requirements are:
Required documents can be mailed to the department or emailed to COE-CandIMastersProg@unt.edu.
Additional information or questions can be directed to program facilitator, Dr. Jeanne Tunks, M.Ed. at jeanne.tunks@unt.edu, 940-565-3284.
The program aims to prepare its graduates to:
A limited number of teaching fellowships and assistantships are available to help you pursue your graduate degree. These opportunities include working with professors on research grants and projects or as a teaching assistant advising undergraduate students, teaching undergraduate classes and supervising student teaching.
You may apply for these positions by submitting an application and a current résumé to the department chair. The letter should address your particular strengths and interests.
More information about financial assistance is available at the financial aid website, the graduate school website or the college of education website.
Rossana Ramirez Boyd, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Bilingual/ESL Teacher Certification Programs; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Curriculum and instruction; foreign language education; bilingual education; English as a Second Language education; educational administration.
Dina C. Castro, Professor and Velma E. Schmidt Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Quality and equity in early childhood care and education; bilingual development and early education policy and practice; global perspectives on early education in multilingual/multicultural societies.
Colleen Eddy, Associate Professor; Ed.D., Baylor University. Pre-and in-service mathematics education.
Lauren Eutsler, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Florida. Using portable technology to support children’s literacy development and training pre-service teachers to effectively use portable technology to motivate, enhance and improve children’s literacy learning.
Ricardo Gonzalez-Carriedo, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State University. Education of bilingual/ bicultural students, including second language learning and literacy development.
Pamela Esprivalo Harrell, Professor, Ed.D., University of Houston. Topics of science teacher quality and science teacher effectiveness.
Kelley M. King, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. History of education and the contested curriculum; civic and citizenship education; teaching and learning in global and online communities.
Dan G. Krutka, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Citizenship education and the role participatory media might play in cultivating more democratic educational experiences.
James D. Laney, Professor and Department Chair; Ed.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Generative teaching-learning theory; general social studies education; economic education; aging education; arts integration.
Chris Long,Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Curtin University. Middle school science education.
Karthigeyan Subramaniam, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Elementary/middle/secondary science teacher education; educational technology; action research; pre-service teacher education.
Tran Templeton, Assistant Professor, Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University. The intersection of early childhood education, critical childhood studies and visual sociology.
Jeanne Tunks, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of North Texas. The study of culturally relevant teaching practices in the International Teacher to Teacher Exchange program.
Carol Wickstrom, Professor; Ph.D., Texas Woman’s University. Pre-service teacher education; reflection; portfolio assessment; classroom discourse especially as it relates to pre-service teachers, reading/writing and mentoring.
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