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Kaplan University's online education programs will provide rigorous instruction in an intellectually stimulating environment. Today's learners, young and old, need knowledgeable and dedicated teachers. You'll find our online teacher education courses are comprehensive, and that our educators have years of K-12 classroom experience.

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Kaplan University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA).
Their address is:
30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400,
Chicago, IL, 60602-2504
Tel: 800-621-7440 (Toll Free)

Kaplan University is recognized by the Iowa Department of Education. Qualified students are eligible to receive Iowa state tuition grants. Kaplan University is approved by the Iowa and Illinois Divisions of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Iowa and Illinois Private Industry Area Councils.

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Kaplan University's online education programs will provide rigorous instruction in an intellectually stimulating environment. Today's learners, young and old, need knowledgeable and dedicated teachers. You'll find our online teacher education courses are comprehensive, and that our educators have years of K-12 classroom experience.

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Why Kaplan University School of Education

Expert Instructors
Our online degree and certificate programs are taught by practicing professionals. Because they work in the field they teach, you're sure to acquire the most current knowledge and skills. That's an important benefit when it comes to information technology or business courses, where the information is constantly evolving.

Innovative Teaching
Kaplan University students report that their online education far outshines their traditional classroom experiences. That's because we focus on providing a human touch in addition to high technology. We are committed to providing personal attention and academic support when you need it. The flexibility and dynamic interaction of online education at Kaplan University also allows for innovative learning opportunities.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Online Quizzes: Many classes have a quiz at the end of each lesson, which provides you with instant feedback on what you've learned.
• Message Boards: Each week's lesson includes interaction between students and their instructors on our message boards. This provides the chance to expand your learning through discussions or get advice from a professor or class peers.
• Web Field Trips: Students conduct research using various Internet research sites and are asked to take notes in their online learning journals for discussion later.
• Seminars: Students participate in interactive seminar sessions with their classmates and instructor. The seminars help create a significant and enriching exchange within students' online learning experience.

We're A Premier Education Provider
If you are looking to gain the skills you require to achieve your career and educational goals, you'll find the program you need at Kaplan University. Building on a long and distinguished history as both academic pioneer and career- maker, we have become one of the world's finest providers of online education.

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The Associate of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with an Educational Paraprofessional focus is designed to prepare students to be teacher's aides. This degree is excellent for those who are interested in the field of education, but do not wish to pursue a bachelors degree. This program stresses child development and learning, educational psychology, classroom management, instructional methods, and health and safety. This degree also has the option of being customized because it is in the interdisciplinary studies program.

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Take your career in higher education to the leadership level - online.

Earning your Master of Science in Higher Education online at Kaplan University is by far the most convenient way to advance your career in postsecondary education institutions, such as universities, colleges, community colleges, and technical and vocational schools, while receiving high-quality instruction.

The Master of Science in Higher Education offers you a quality, comprehensive, 100 percent online program. Our distinguished faculty take an active interest in your background and career goals, and help guide you through the program. Completion of the program will help maximize your career choices and strengthen your knowledge and skills as a practitioner of higher education.

Since many professionals in higher education go on to pursue doctoral degrees, a program goal is that you earn to think, research, and write with the sophistication of a higher education scholar. Your ideas will become more refined, and your administrative philosophies more enlightened.

You'll graduate with the practical and academic knowledge and skills it takes to achieve great things in the real world. Currently, there are two degree specializations available: student services and college teaching and learning.

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Take your career in higher education to the leadership level - online.

Earning your Master of Science in Higher Education online at Kaplan University is by far the most convenient way to advance your career in postsecondary education institutions, such as universities, colleges, community colleges, and technical and vocational schools, while receiving high-quality instruction.

The Master of Science in Higher Education offers you a quality, comprehensive, 100 percent online program. Our distinguished faculty take an active interest in your background and career goals, and help guide you through the program. Completion of the program will help maximize your career choices and strengthen your knowledge and skills as a practitioner of higher education.

Since many professionals in higher education go on to pursue doctoral degrees, a program goal is that you earn to think, research, and write with the sophistication of a higher education scholar. Your ideas will become more refined, and your administrative philosophies more enlightened.

You'll graduate with the practical and academic knowledge and skills it takes to achieve great things in the real world. Currently, there are two degree specializations available: student services and college teaching and learning.

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Do You Want to Make a Difference?
Kaplan University's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program is designed to help prepare individuals with a bachelor's degree in a subject other than education to become qualified secondary teachers in grades 5-12. Pursue a career path where you can make a difference, one student at a time.

The MAT program and its curriculum are designed to help career changers, retirees, and individuals in education fields with no or limited teaching experience master the art of teaching at the secondary (grades 5-12) level.

The program provides students the opportunity to pursue either an Iowa certification or non-certification track of study.

The non-certification track consists of a minimum of 42 quarter credit hours and is designed for professionals from all 50 states and abroad who desire a fundamental understanding of secondary teaching practices, but may not wish to become certified teachers at this time. This program is also designed for those individuals who would like to become certified teachers through the alternative certification route approved by their state. Kaplan University cannot recommended candidates outside of Iowa for licensure, but does have MAT coaches dedicated to helping students plan their own path to certification in their home state.** The non-certification track is structured around courses designed to build a strong foundation in teaching and does not include fieldwork or a student teaching/internship experience. Enrollment in content area courses is also not required for completion of this track of the program.

The Iowa certification track consists of a minimum of 56 quarter credit hours and is designed for professionals able to conduct fieldwork and student teaching/internship requirements in an Iowa public school. Students who successfully complete the Iowa certification track of the MAT program will be recommended to the Iowa Department of Education for a teaching license. The Iowa certification track is approved by the Iowa State Board of Education and offers core and certification courses, as well as required fieldwork assignments and a supervised student teaching or year-long internship experience. In addition, students take elective courses geared toward their expertise in specific content areas. Students pursuing the Iowa certification track MUST be Iowa residents or able to complete the fieldwork and student teaching/internship requirements in the state of Iowa.

*Please note this program is subject to minimum enrollments. If minimum enrollment requirements are not met, candidates will be asked to enroll in the following term.

**Individual state licensing requirements vary and may change from time to time. Thus, Kaplan University makes no representations or warranties as to whether the program meets the specific licensing requirements for any individual state. Kaplan University encourages candidates to independently research the licensing requirements in any state in which they intend to seek licensure.

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Teaching children during their formative years of adolescence is a challenge that can be personally and financially rewarding. In this profession, you could serve as both mentor and coach--imparting academic knowledge and helping to shape students' views of their own self-worth and their roles in the world around them. If you are ready to experience the tremendous satisfaction that comes from preparing teens for the future, the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Kaplan University is designed to help you develop the necessary professional competencies to teach at the secondary level.

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Today's K-12 classrooms come in all shapes and sizes, accommodating students in public and private schools, vocational programs, and even home schooling environments. Kaplan University understands the value of nurturing students in unique teaching and learning environments. Kaplan University's virtual classrooms focus on adding a human touch to the high technology of learning online, allowing you to study, full or part time, from anywhere you have access to the Internet.** Whether you are preparing to enter this exciting field for the first time, or are already teaching and want to enhance your knowledge and advance your career, Kaplan University offers a convenient, flexible solution for earning your master's degree online. The program offers nine emphasis areas designed to help you achieve the academic competencies required in a specific area of teaching: teaching literacy and language--grades K-6, teaching literacy and language--grades 6-12, teaching mathematics--grades K-5, teaching mathematics--grades 6-8, teaching mathematics--grades 9-12, teaching science--grades K-6, teaching science--grades 6-12, teaching students with special needs, and teaching with technology.*

*The program and curriculum have been designed to provide students with the background and practical experience that meet nationally recognized standards for such a degree. However, individual state licensing requirements vary and may change from time to time. Thus, Kaplan University makes no representations or warranties as to whether the program meets the specific licensing requirements for any individual state. Kaplan University encourages its students to independently research the licensing requirements in any state in which they intend to seek licensure.
**Some Kaplan University programs are not 100 percent online; some programs require you to gain hands-on experience in a real-world work environment.

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Explore the roles of institutional research and strategic planning in institutions of higher education. Examine various theories for development of a comprehensive student services program. Study to acquire the skills needed to measure student learning and evaluate academic programs in postsecondary educational settings, including the accreditation procedures and standards for online programs.

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Kaplan University's online education programs will provide rigorous instruction in an intellectually stimulating environment. Today's learners, young and old, need knowledgeable and dedicated teachers. You'll find that our online teaching degree courses are comprehensive, and our instructors have the classroom knowledge to educate you.

Kaplan University has education programs to fit your educational and professional goals. Focus on teaching literacy and language, or another area that interests you.

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Explore approaches to developing a comprehensive student services program with an emphasis on current management and legal issues in student affairs. Study to develop expertise in curriculum design and implementation and assessing learning outcomes. Gain hands-on experience through internships at two different real-world educational institutions. This specialization meets the standards of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) for graduate programs in student affairs and the standards of the Professional Preparation Commission of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).

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Take your career in higher education to the leadership level - online.

Earning your Master of Science in Higher Education online at Kaplan University is by far the most convenient way to advance your career in postsecondary education institutions, such as universities, colleges, community colleges, and technical and vocational schools, while receiving high-quality instruction.

The Master of Science in Higher Education offers you a quality, comprehensive, 100 percent online program. Our distinguished faculty take an active interest in your background and career goals, and help guide you through the program. Completion of the program will help maximize your career choices and strengthen your knowledge and skills as a practitioner of higher education.

Since many professionals in higher education go on to pursue doctoral degrees, a program goal is that you earn to think, research, and write with the sophistication of a higher education scholar. Your ideas will become more refined, and your administrative philosophies more enlightened.

You'll graduate with the practical and academic knowledge and skills it takes to achieve great things in the real world. Currently, there are two degree specializations available: student services and college teaching and learning.

-Back to Top

Take your career in higher education to the leadership level - online.

Earning your Master of Science in Higher Education online at Kaplan University is by far the most convenient way to advance your career in postsecondary education institutions, such as universities, colleges, community colleges, and technical and vocational schools, while receiving high-quality instruction.

The Master of Science in Higher Education offers you a quality, comprehensive, 100 percent online program. Our distinguished faculty take an active interest in your background and career goals, and help guide you through the program. Completion of the program will help maximize your career choices and strengthen your knowledge and skills as a practitioner of higher education.

Since many professionals in higher education go on to pursue doctoral degrees, a program goal is that you earn to think, research, and write with the sophistication of a higher education scholar. Your ideas will become more refined, and your administrative philosophies more enlightened.

You'll graduate with the practical and academic knowledge and skills it takes to achieve great things in the real world. Currently, there are two degree specializations available: student services and college teaching and learning.

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Study how to improve the school environment for students, teachers, and the community; enhance student learning; and follow nationally recognized standards developed by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) and the NCATE/Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC). Examine best practices for educational leadership in the areas of school finance and operations, legal issues in education, curriculum development for school improvement, and supervision and staff development. In addition, focus on the special needs, diversity, and cultural concerns that face site-based administrators.

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Focus on the design and development of new curricula to meet the demands of a changing society, new technologies, and the needs of new generations of students in public and private educational institutions.

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Study the design and practice of effective online curriculum, as well as multimedia development and implementation, to prepare to meet the demand for instructional designers, instructional technologists, and media developers in higher education.+

+Kaplan University's programs are designed to prepare graduates to pursue employment in their field of study, or in related fields. However, the University does not guarantee that graduates will be placed in any particular job or employed at all.

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Review design and development models, technology, pedagogy, and management principles and practices used in instructional design in corporations, the military, and nonprofit training environments.

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