La Salle University
Why Study Education at La Salle?
La Salle University has partnered with the Regional Training Center (RTC) to provide a 30-credit Master of Education (M.Ed.) program with a concentration in instruction for licensed K-12 classroom practitioners offered in-person options in Pennsylvania and Maryland and online/virtual options in 49 states (all except California). Non-degree seeking students can also enroll in the program for graduate-level professional development courses.
As professional educators, teachers in the La Salle/RTC M. Ed. program focus on understanding not only what works in the teaching process but why it works. Meaningful inquiry into the link between theory and practice is built into all of the courses in this 30-credit program, which has concentration choices that allow the teachers to specialize in their area of interest.
Students can choose from one of five concentrations within the La Salle/RTC M.Ed. program: Teaching Strategies for the 21st Century Learner; The Differentiated Classroom; Building Positive Classroom Communities; Classroom Well-being and Physical Activity; or Integrating Technology into the K-12 classroom.
Courses for professional development and the M.Ed. are offered in asynchronous and synchronous online format. Designed to enhance classroom instruction, courses are taught by veteran educators with years of experience in elementary, middle school, and secondary settings.
Highlighted Courses
EDM 520 – Universal Design for Learning: Reaching All Learners in the Digital Age
This course examines, discusses and offers hands-on learning for teachers to apply a blueprint for creating flexible goals, methods, materials and assessments to support classroom-based activities that will enable their students with diverse needs and learning styles to succeed in an inclusive, standards-based, digital classroom.
EDM 535 – Brain-Based Teaching and Learning
This course examines, discusses and offers hands-on learning utilizing current research in neuroscience that indicates ways that brains naturally learn best. Teachers will then apply what they learn to the P-12 classroom.
EDM 555 – The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Movement
This course examines, discusses and offers hands-on learning through understanding how instructional content can be enlivened in the P-12 classroom through the use of dynamic movement and kinesthetic activity. By using movement, academic standards can be met, test scores can be improved, and important life skills can be developed.
Meet the Program Director
January M. Baker, Ph.D., is the Director of the La Salle M.Ed./RTC. She has been with the Graduate Education Department since 2009. She is an advocate for adult learners of all ability levels, and she enjoys serving the La Salle mission of Education. Her research projects include assessing the needs of adult learners in today’s college classroom, and identifying the benefits of distance learning for professional development.
