Master's of Arts in Education

Graduate programs in education

Dr. Amy Mullins, director of graduate programs in education, answers common questions about Bluffton University's Master of Arts in Education.

Become a more knowledgeable educator,
enhance the learning in your classroom

Courses offered through the Bluffton graduate programs in education can be used to: 

  • Strengthen classroom teaching
  • Be used for license renewal
  • Expand your teaching options with a 
    • Reading endorsement
    • Intervention specialist licensure
  • Lead to graduate degree in education

Bluffton’s MAEd program is online, self-paced and focused on your goals! Choose from three concentrations—reading endorsement, intervention specialist licensure or leadership.

The reading and intervention specialist concentrations can be taken as stand-alone programs leading to Ohio Department of Education teaching credentials. 


Intervention specialist licensure

Prepare to teach students with mild to moderate education needs with an intervention specialist K-12 mild/moderate education needs license. 
More about stand-alone intervention specialist licensure >


Master of Arts in Education

Complete six core courses and a concentration in intervention specialist, reading or leadership to earn a cost-effective, convenient and challenging graduate degree in education. 
Course requirements >

 

Concentrations

Reading concentration/endorsement

Add the reading endorsement to your teaching license by taking as few as four classes in one summer. Experiential learning hours may be completed in your own classroom/school.

Two classes offered in each session:
 June 3-28 and  July 1-26, 2024

  • Courses based on the Science of Reading pedagogy.
  • Fulfills the Third grade Reading Guarantee requirement
  • Qualifies educators as Title 1 teachers
  • Completely online
  • 12 credit hours
  • OAE required for reading endorsement
  • Additional phonics class required if not taken with undergraduate studies.
  • Prerequisite: Undergraduate reading courses based on license.

One of the most needed specializations in Northwest Ohio, providing the skills to identify literacy needs and adapt lessons to meet those needs.

Continue your studies and earn your master’s degree with six additional core courses.


Intervention specialist concentration/licensure

This concentration can be completed as part of the MAEd degree or by itself to earn an intervention specialist K-12 mild/moderate education needs license.

  • Prepare educators to teach students with mild to moderate education needs
  • Combination of online and video-conference classes.
  • Non-sequential courses – you may start at any point
  • Prerequisite: introductory course in intervention specialist
  • Finish in 23 semester hours

Graduates must pass the appropriate state required exam and apply to the state for the intervention specialist license.


Leadership concentration

Bluffton’s leadership concentration addresses the nature of supervisory relationships, the leader’s level of self-understanding and emotional intelligence, and the role of the leader as an agent of change.

  • Prepares teachers to become a building leader in instructional design and curriculum development.
  • Combination of online and video-conference classes.
  • 12 credit hours

For more information about Bluffton's Graduate Programs in Education, contact

Claire Clay
Director of public relations and enrollment operations
clayc@bluffton.edu
Call or text 419-860-3749

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