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Our
Promise to You:
A
Worthwhile Investment
A discipline-specific Master’s Degree is essential for your teaching career,
due to the No Child Left Behind Act’s
“Highly Qualified Teacher” requirements.
The MAS-GE degree program is a flexible master’s degree focusing on
your needs, while adapting the program’s assessments to maximize your
experience. Without traveling to
classes, you can earn this degree in 12-18 months. A degree in geography education will not
only enhance your ability to teach this area of the social sciences, but also
provide you with techniques for integration of material into other subjects. Our
promise is that every hour that you spend earning your master's degree
will be a worthwhile investment in personal growth and improvement as a
teacher. We promise to do everything possible to avoid meaningless
“edubabble” assignments that would have little personal or professional
value.
The first 7 classes (or 24 credits) focus on increasing your knowledge.
You will gain new insights into human-Earth interactions; study patterns
created by nature and people, and learn how principles of geography and its
techniques are used by geographers. In these courses, your assignments
will focus on adapting and applying your new knowledge to the classroom. You will learn state-of-the-art, truly
fascinating geographical knowledge and how to use the knowledge to improve
your classroom.
The last 2 classes (or 6 credits) focus on learning about educational
research and developing an applied project. This is not a thesis, but a
“capstone experience” aimed at integrating the entire program through the
lens of a classroom.
No
Logistical Hurdles
You
already work very hard as an educator: that’s why we created this flexible
degree. You don’t need to be hassled with driving and trying to find a
parking spot: that’s why this program is 98% online. You don’t need to
be hassled with a crazy registration process: that’s why the School of Geographical Sciences’ MAS-GE
Program partnered with ASU’s School of
Extended Education—to register those who are accepted into the program
and then confirm, waive ASU’s immunization requirement since you will be
off-campus, and bundle all of the tuition and fees together and bill you, or
a third party if another will be paying. It’s one-stop shopping without
hassle.
An
Individualized Approach
We cap
our enrollment to make sure there is a focus on your needs. We will
visit you in your own classroom if you need help. We work diligently to
understand your prior background in adapting the program assessments to help
maximize your learning. We do this because we believe that a true
master’s experience must be individualized.
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