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M.A., M.S. in Ed.: Adolescence education and special subjects - M.S. in Ed., health and nutrition sciences: health teacher
HEGIS code 0837
NYS SED program code 27318
The Master of Science in Education Health Teacher (all grades) program provides a means for school health educators to focus on contemporary health issues, curricula development, and research skills to meet the needs of the school health education program. Required courses are offered once per academic year. Elective courses are offered less frequently on a rotating basis. If a student has not completed student teaching in health prior to application to the program, additional courses in specific areas including health counseling, human sexuality, substance abuse, and human nutrition and physiology will be required to qualify for student teaching.
M.A., M.S. in Ed.: Adolescence Education and Special Subjects requirements
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Admission Requirements
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Health And Nutrition Science School Of Education |
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Supporting Documents for Matriculation: Submit to the Office of Admissions official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended, two letters of recommendation, resume, photocopy of New York State or other state teaching certificate. On a separate page, attach a brief biographical statement of 500 to 1,000 words describing your reasons for pursuing the specific graduate program to which you are applying and your future professional goals. Interview with department. Applicants must submit results of LAST scores or provide a written registration confirmation of the LAST. |
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The profession of teacher is licensed by the New York State Education Department. Therefore, program requirements are subject to change. All students should consult with the School of Education for the current requirements.
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Matriculation requirements
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Applicants must offer 18 credits in courses in the health sciences or equivalent courses in other fields.
Applicants must also offer (a) or (b) or (c):
(a) New York State Initial Certification in Adolescence Education in teaching health for all grades;
(b) courses in education that meet the New York State standards for the pedagogical core. These courses include study of the following: history of education and philosophy of education or principles of education or educational sociology; educational psychology or developmental psychology or psychology of adolescence or adolescent development; classroom management; teaching students with special needs and English language learners; 6 credits in literacy and language acquisition; curriculum development and methods of assessing student learning; uses of technology in the classroom; methods of teaching health for all grades; 100 hours of fieldwork; 40 days or 300 hours of student teaching health for all grades, or one year of full-time teaching health for all grades; and submission of scores on the L.A.S.T.;
(c) an undergraduate degree with an appropriate major or appropriate course work (including introduction to health, human physiology, health counseling, health appraisal or the physiology of health and disease, occupational health ot first aid, evaluation or statistics, human sexuality, health and human ecology or environmental health, and drugs and society), and submission of scores on the Liberal Arts and Science test (L.A.S.T.).
Applicants must have a minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.00. A minimum average of 3.00 in graduate courses is required to maintain matriculation.
International applicants for whom English is a second language are required to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a score of 550 before being considered for admission.
Applicants who have not completed all the specific course requirements are given individual consideration and may be admitted with conditions, with the approval of the head of adolescence education and special subjects in the School of Education and the chairperson of the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences.
General matriculation and admission requirements of the Division of Graduate Studies are in the section "Admission."
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Degree requirements
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A minimum of thirty credits is required for the degree.
Students must complete 18 credits in health sciences in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. Health and Nutrition Sciences 747X and 791.1X are required.
Students must also complete 12 credits in courses in the School of Education. Students take different education courses and sequences of courses depending on their previous course work, teaching experience, and the certificates they hold. Students who possess Initial Certification in teaching health must complete 9 credits in Group II and 3 credits in Group III, below. Students who do not possess Initial Certification or equivalent course work and teaching experience or who are teaching but do not possess Initial Certification in teaching health must have the appropriate course work and credits in the subject area and must complete the appropriate courses in Group I before taking courses in Groups II and III, below.
Students pursuing Initial Certification in teaching health must take Education 792.2X, Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, in Group III.
Students who already have a master's degree but wish Initial Certification in teaching health must take appropriate courses in Group I and Group III below, as determined at the time of matriculation by the head of adolescence education and special subjects in the School of Education.
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Education 742X, 792.1X, 763.16T, 764.5T, 723.16T, 764.51T.
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Education 742.2T, 722.16T, 724.16T.
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Education 716X, 721.16T, 726.1X, 731.3T, 751.2T, 751.1T, 784.2X, 792.2X, Education 792.4X/English 779X, Education 796X/Theater 741, Education 799.5X.
Students must pass a comprehensive examination or submit a thesis acceptable to the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department. Students who choose to write a thesis must complete Health and Nutrition Sciences 780X. Information about requirements for the comprehensive examination and the thesis is in the section "Academic Regulations and Procedures." Courses offered toward the degree must be 700-level courses.
The program of study must be approved in the first semester by the chairperson or deputy chairperson of the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department and the head of adolescence education and special subjects in the School of Education.