Secondary Education Program (Including Initial Teacher Licensure)

Why Secondary Education at GW?

Distinctive Program Benefits to Students:

• Accelerated program options: 12-13.5 months
• Opportunities for reduced tuition or tuition support
• Strong faculty and peer support in program
• Carefully supervised school-based internships
• M.Ed. Advantage: graduates will start salary scale at higher level

The Program

The Master of Education degree in secondary education offers an innovative series of experiences that develop the skills and concepts essential for effective teaching. Secondary school teaching is socially significant, intellectually serious work for resourceful, intelligent, and caring professionals.

The Secondary Education Program stresses an integrated university-public school approach to the preparation of future teachers, underscoring GW’s commitment to teaching in a collaborative social context. Graduate students become part of a diverse community of scholars and teachers dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning in public schools.

Our program provides the initial teacher education course work up front so students can obtain their teaching licenses as quickly as possible and then finish the six to nine remaining credits of the M.Ed. Most classes meet during weekday evenings. Areas of Licensure include

• English
• English as a Second Language
• Foreign Language (modern and classic)
• Mathematics
• Science (biology, chemistry, and physics)
• Social Studies.

For inquiries contact:

Dr. Karen Kortecamp
Associate Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Coordinator, Secondary Education
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(202) 994-1713