Teacher Education, EdS
The EdS offers advanced, practice-focused preparation for educators and other professionals seeking leadership roles, deeper specialization, and greater impact. With close faculty mentorship and flexible program options, you’ll build the skills and expertise to make a meaningful difference.
Program overview
The Department of Theory & Practice in Teacher Education offers a Specialist in Education (EdS) degree with a Major in Teacher Education. This degree is designed for those students who already possess a master’s degree in education. The department offers a Distance Education Practitioner option for individuals who hold a master’s degree in education and who are employed as a Job-Embedded practitioner.
Concentrations
- Applied Behavior Analysis (Special Education & School Psychology) (new program beginning in Fall 2026)
- Art Education
- Educational Technology (Online)
- Elementary Education
- English Education
- Literacy Education (Online)
- Math Education
- Practitioner (Online)
- Science Education
- Social Science Education
- Special Education
- Teaching and Learning
- World Language Education
Why study Teacher Education?
Teacher Education prepares you with knowledge, instructional strategies, and classroom management skills needed to reach every learner and create environments where all students can succeed. It develops your ability to design meaningful curriculum, assess student growth, and respond to the diverse needs of today’s classrooms.
Beyond the classroom, a background in Teacher Education opens doors in curriculum development, instructional coaching, educational leadership, and policy advocacy.
If you are passionate about learning, children, and making a lasting difference in your community, Teacher Education is a deeply rewarding and critically important field that will define your legacy for generations.
What can you do with an EdS in Teacher Education after graduation?
Lead Teacher
Principal
District Curriculum Director
Instructional Coordinator
Featured Courses
Direct Assessment and Interventions for Academic Skills Deficits
Theory, techniques and procedures shown to prevent and remedy academic skills deficits: curriculum-based assessment and direct intervention procedures.
Educational Applications of Behavioral Theories of Learning
Behavioral theories and research, conditioning, observational learning, and ethological learning as systems apply to student motivation, discipline and learning.
Applied Behavior Analysis in School Settings
Emphasizes the application of applied behavior analysis principles, including the study of designing, implementing, and evaluating behavior analytic interventions relevant to alleviating significant problem behaviors in the classroom setting.
Quasi-Experimental and Single-Subject Design Research
History, theory and research design techniques used to examine cause and effect relationships during applied psychoeducational research. Focus on controlling threats to internal validity through research design.
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