Education Graduate Programs

SSU offers a Master of Education degree with two strands: Curriculum & Instruction and Intervention Specialist. Both strands are offered through asynchronous coursework in a 4 – 6 semester sequence – a Fall start (4 semesters- fall, spring, summer, fall) or a Spring start (6 semesters – spring, summer, fall, spring, summer, fall).

Shawnee also offers two online licensure-only programs at the graduate level through the Ohio Deans Compact LISD Collaborative: Intervention Specialist: Hearing Impaired Teacher Licensure Program and Intervention Specialist: Visually Impaired Teacher Licensure Program. Both licensure-only programs are offered through asynchronous coursework in a 4-semester sequence (Summer, Fall, Spring, Summer).

Both the Master’s degree strands and the licensure-only programs are designed around the schedules of working teachers and school professionals, facilitating learning activities that are immediately applicable to the teachers’ current classrooms and work experience.

The SSU School of Education has developed curriculum in our licensure graduate programs to meet requirements in the state of Ohio.  Completion of a graduate licensure program at SSU will also meet the requirements for licensure in Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, and Oklahoma. For those completing a graduate licensure program at SSU AND holding a valid Ohio teaching license may be eligible to obtain provisional or standard licensure in other states. Additional testing, background clearance, and other requirements may need to be met prior to applying for admission in those states.

Please refer to the resource Teacher Certification by State for further information.

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