Master of Education - ACU Online

Learning Outcomes

• promote the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community.
  
• promote the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and professional growth.
  
• promote the success of all students by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient and effective learning environment.
  
• promote the success of all students by collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
  
• promote the success of all students by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.
  
• promote the success of all students by understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal and cultural context.
  

• develop analytical and interpersonal negotiation skills with emphasis on strategic approach to assisting parties by creating agreement.
  
• critique basic assumptions of conflict theories.
  
• identify and manage conflict through appropriate strategies, processes and interpersonal skills.
  
• investigate learning approaches to instruction as informed by research.
  
• use diverse and inclusive approaches to help all students reach higher standards of performance.
  
• identify partnerships and enlist the support of parents in developing safe and orderly schools.
  
• examine the interrelationships among curriculum, instruction and assessment.
  
• explore current research on strategies that increase achievement of all students.
  
• conduct and report action research related to the field.
  

• articulate the different models, theories and philosophies that inform special education practice.
  
• describe the development and characteristics of children with special needs.
  
• demonstrate the ability to create a safe, equitable, positive, and supportive learning environment in which diversities are valued.
  
• articulate the theories and research that form the basis of curriculum development for students with special needs.
  
• reflect on ones practice to improve instruction and guide professional growth.
  
• conduct and report action research related to the field.
  
• demonstrate the ability to use assessment information in making eligibility program, and placement decisions for individuals with exceptional learning needs, including those from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
  
• develop analytical and interpersonal negotiation skills with emphasis on strategic approach to assisting parties by creating agreement.
  
• critique basic assumptions of conflict theory.
  
• identify and manage conflict through appropriate strategies.