Master of Education in Educational Leadership

The M.Ed. Educational Leadership is a performance-based program of study designed to prepare future school principals and assistant principals. Students must complete a 38-hour program of study with an administrative internship. Candidates produce a professional portfolio as evidence of competency in the six standards for licensure: educational leadership, school management, school climate, community relations, curriculum management and data collection and analysis.

Program Requirements:

Candidates for the: Master of Education degree with a major in educational leadership must complete the following 38-semester-hour degree program.

EDLD 6113 Action Research

EDLD 6313 Curriculum Development

EDLD 6002 Administrative Law

EDLD 6013 School Organization and Leadership

EDLD 6023 Organizational Change

EDLD 6102 School Finance

EDLD 6153 Communication With School and Community

EDLD 6203 Education and Society: Continuities and Discontinuities

EDLD 6253 Instructional Leadership

EDLD 6303 Technology as an Administrative Tool

EDLD 6352 Physical Environment of Schools

EDLD 6402 Working with the Marginal Performer

EDLD 6554 Administrative Internship

EDLD 6992 Professional Portfolio

Portfolio
Each candidate is required to submit a portfolio for completion of requirements for the Masters Degree in Educational Leadership demonstrating evidence of a candidates competencies required by the Arkansas Standards for Licensure for Building Administrators and the Interstate School Leaders Standards. A satisfactory portfolio is a requirement for recommendation for completion of the program. The candidate must enroll in two hours of portfolio study after completion of twenty-eight hours of course work. The portfolio is to be completed at the end of course work and last semester of enrollment. One copy of the portfolio is required. This copy is for the Educational Leadership Department. An oral review of the portfolio is required. The oral review will be in compliance with Arkansas licensure requirements of building principals.

General Requirements for Educational Leadership
A minimum of thirty-eight semester hours must be completed of which all must be at the 6000 level.

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Miller's Analogy Test MAT) must be completed and official scores on file in the Office of Graduate Studies.

A portfolio must be successfully completed and approved by a portfolio review committee.

A cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 must be achieved in all graduate work attempted at Arkansas Tech University, with a maximum of 6 hours of "C" grad. A student receiving 6 hours of "C" grades or 3 hours of "F" grades is subject to dismissal from the graduate program. Grades lower than "C will not be counted toward degree requirements.

Twenty-seven hours of graduate work must be taken while in residence at Arkansas Tech University.

Course work from other institutions of higher education will transferred from institutions that have received program approval for a program of study reflective of the Arkansas Standards of Licensure for Building Level

The master's degree program must be completed within six years from the time of unconditional or conditional admission to the graduate program.

Three years of teaching experience is required for admission.

Students will be entered into the program as cohorts.

For further information:

Dr. Mary B. Gunter
(479) 968-0374
mary.gunter@atu.edu

Ms. Karen Endel
(479) 968-0424
karen.endel@atu.edu