QUEST
Upon completion of the QUEST program (5 years undergraduate and graduate levels), the teaching candidate will:
- Demonstrate the InTASC standards in performance, essential knowledge, and disposition;
- Develop and deliver instruction that incorporates the Common Core Standards, the NJ Core Curriculum Standards, and subject-specific National Standards;
- Implement research-based best practices in effective planning and instruction to increase the achievement of all students;
- Develop competency in addressing the diversity of the student population, including ELL students and students with disabilities;
- Integrate technology into lessons where content drives the use of technology in order to provide access to materials, increase student motivation and participation, differentiate instruction, and improve problem-solving skills and higher-order thinking.
- Use multiple forms of continuous assessment to assess their students, collect data, and use the data to differentiate and inform instruction based upon student needs; and
- Assume the role of teacher leader within the educational community.
Master of Arts (MAT)
Upon completion of the program, MAT teaching candidate will:
- Implement research-based best practices in effective instruction to increase the achievement of all students;
- Be competent professionals who can address the diversity of the student population, including ELL students and students with disabilities;
- Demonstrate the InTASC standards in performance, essential knowledge, and disposition;
- Develop and deliver instruction that incorporates the Common Core State Standards, NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards, and subject-specific standards;
- Continuously assess students and use student data to differentiate instruction based upon student needs;
- Assume the role of teacher leader within the educational community.
MA Education for Certified Teachers
- Continue to grow as professionals who can address the diversity of the student population;
- Continue to develop as a teacher leader within the educational community;
- Implement advanced and current research-based best practices to increase the achievement of all students;
- Continue to demonstrate the InTASC standards in performance, essential knowledge, and disposition;
- Continue to develop and deliver instruction that incorporates the New Jersey Student Learning Standards, and subject-specific standards;
- Use advanced methods of assessment and data analysis to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students.
MA Learning Disabilities
- Be knowledgeable about current trends in special education;
- Demonstrate proficiency in assisting students to gain access to the general education classroom;
- Incorporate technology into their professional practice;
- Be knowledgeable about best practices in inclusive education;
- Incorporate in lesson plans the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
MA Educational Leadership
- Assume the role of a leader in promoting achievement for all students;
- Have the management skills required to utilize available district resources;
- Have the skills and knowledge to create a vision for effective schools and engage the learning community stakeholders in the process of creating and implementing an educational vision;
- Possess the human relations skills to effectively interact with teachers, parents, students, and other members of the school and learning community.
MA Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language
- Implement research-based best practices in effective instruction to increase language achievement of all students;
- Be competent professionals who can recognize and design instruction that is appropriate for the linguistic and cultural needs of students in the teaching context;
- Demonstrate the InTASC standards in performance, essential knowledge, and disposition;
- Develop and deliver instruction that is based on formal content standards appropriate to the teaching context;
- Continuously assess students and use student data to differentiate instruction according to the language development level of individual students;
- Develop personal and professional qualities consistent with leadership positions in multicultural settings both globally and locally.