Transformative Teaching - MEd Concentration
This online master's in education program provides teachers with the opportunity to reflect upon their teaching practices, create empowering learning environments, and become informed participants in the policy arena as well as transformative leaders in their schools.
This online master’s degree is for experienced teachers who want to increase their impact in the classroom and beyond.
The Transformative Teaching program is a unique, multi-faceted, online master’s degree program for classroom teachers available only from the School of Education at George Mason University. The program provides teachers with the opportunity to reflect upon their teaching practices, create empowering learning environments, and become informed participants in the policy arena as well as transformative leaders in their schools.
Through collaboration, leadership, and education research, participants will discover new ways to think, act, and impact issues of teaching, learning, and social justice from the classroom outward.
Online program + two summer weeks
The online format of the Transformative Teaching program allows teachers from across the country to connect in deep collaboration while continuing to teach full-time. The program is offered in a cohort model so you will work with a fixed group of students and faculty throughout the program. In addition to the online courses, the program includes two, week-long, intensive summer courses held on the George Mason University Fairfax campus. The first summer course is taken at the beginning of the program and the second summer course is taken midway through.
The cohort model provides a set sequence of integrated courses as shown below. There are both asynchronous and synchronous online elements in this program.
Required Courses – Year 1
- EDUC 647: Critical Reflective Practice (1.5 credit hours) (Summer 1 (on-campus))
- EDUC 649: Critical Dialogue in Education (1.5 credit hours) (Summer 1 and Fall 1)
- EDUC 651: Critical Theories and Pedagogies (3 credit hours) (Fall 1)
- EDUC 653: Technology and Learning (3 credit hours) (Fall 1)
- EDUC 655: Teacher Research Methods (3 credit hours) (Spring 1)
- EDUC 657: Teaching for Democracy and Social Justice (3 credit hours) (Spring 1)
Required Courses – Year 2
- EDUC 659: Teacher Leadership (1.5 credit hours) (Summer 2 (on-campus))
- EDUC 661: Teacher Empowerment and Policy (1.5 credit hours) (Summer 2 and Fall 2)
- EDUC 663: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (3 credit hours) (Fall 2)
- EDUC 665: Teacher Inquiry in Practice I (3 credit hours) (Fall 2)
- EDUC 667: Teacher Inquiry in Practice II (3 credit hours) (Spring 2)
- EDUC 669: Teaching and Learning in Practice (3 credit hours) (Spring 2)