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Convenient summer schedule

Take the majority of your classes over three summers and complete the remaining courses online during the intervening school year. Special Education students design a course of instruction for children with mild or moderate disabilities and conduct on-campus classes with those students.

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Affordability

Enjoy the benefits of a private university education with a cost comparable to public institutions. The program is offered at a substantially reduced cost, which is fixed at the beginning of your first summer session.

Students and alumni report program benefits are beyond compare.

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Interactive Faculty

Whether you're on campus or working at home, your professors are available to answer questions and offer support.

Jean Rattigan-Rohr, assistant professor of education, worked with M.Ed. students on research examining the effects of a home-university tutoring program on struggling readers’ grades. The students wrote reviews, observed undergraduate students as they tutored struggling readers and worked with readers' parents.
 

Alumni Success

Elon M.Ed. graduates have a 100 percent pass rate on advanced licensure exams.

“My Elon M.Ed. showed me the big picture. It provided an opportunity to work across content areas and eventually go into administration. Now, instead of relying on the knowledge of others, I’m the expert.”

Tyronna Hooker ’09, 2010 Alamance-Burlington Teacher of the Year
 

Community of Learners

Elon keeps classes small (average size is 15) to encourage close collaboration.

Marty Erskine became a teacher after 20 years in the corporate world. His wife, Marsha, was in Elon’s second M.Ed. cohort. Marty and Clark, the couple’s son, entered the program in June 2009. “I knew that I wanted what Marsha took to her classroom each day. I knew that I needed what Elon had to offer,” Marty says.

 

Learn From Your Peers

Elon's central location draws students from both the Triangle, Triad and beyond. You'll network with other teachers from school systems across a major section of North Carolina. Small group work and class discussions are designed to help you learn from other students.

After you gradaute, you'll join an expansive alumni network that extends across the state and offers support and guidance whenever you need it.

The Elon M.Ed.

Earn a master's degree and advanced licensure without sacrificing the critical time you spend in the classroom. Take the majority of your classes over the course of three summers and complete the remaining coursework online in the intervening school year. Programs are available in elementary, gifted and special education. Elon's M.Ed. program is offered at a substantially reduced cost.

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M.Ed. alumna named local Teacher of the Year
The honor represents the second time in two years that the Alamance-Burlington School System has given an Elon grad its top award.
M.Ed. candidates receive degrees in summer Commencement
Thirty-nine students in the Master of Education program received their Elon University degrees Saturday morning in a Commencement ceremony featuring a keynote address from professor Judith Howard, the longtime director of the education graduate program who retires this month after serving the university since 1993 as a teacher, researcher and mentor.
Elon debuts Commencement gowns made from recycled plastic bottles
They look and feel the same as the caps and gowns used in previous ceremonies, but when candidates for Elon University’s Master of Education participate in their Aug. 20, 2011, Commencement exercises, as part of the university’s sustainability commitment, their regalia contained fabric made from 100 percent recycled plastic bottles.
Enrichment program connects DPT students with area children
Forty first-year Doctor of Physical Therapy students joined 26 elementary children on July 14 for a morning of fun and physical activity as part of Elon’s Summer Learning and Enrichment Academy, a partnership between Elon and the Alamance-Burlington School System that focuses on helping exceptional children in grades K-8 develop and maintain academic and behavioral skills they need to be successful in their learning.

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