Master of Education in Educational Leadership - Teacher Leader

The purpose of this program is to prepare educational personnel for administrative and supervisory positions in schools, business, and a variety of human services agencies. This discipline-based program includes concepts, research findings, and models of inquiry in social sciences. The program is also theory and problem-based in that it addresses the relevant theories of organization, leadership, and curriculum and contemporary issues likely to confront administrators and supervisors, and other educational leaders. Finally, the program is career-based given that it focuses on the examination of administrative and supervisory functions and objectives within a variety of settings and for different purposes. If you’re interested in continuing your career in a leadership capacity, but don’t want to become a principal, this program will prepare you to take a peer leadership role (such as department chair or mentor) in your school or district. This program gives you the option to add a Teacher Leader endorsement to your Illinois Teaching License (PEL).

To be eligible to enroll in either of the master's degree programs, students must hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, have two years of full-time teaching experience and hold a valid standard teaching license. To be eligible to enroll in the Teacher Leader Endorsement program, students must have earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in education, have three years of full-time teaching experience and hold a valid standard Illinois teaching license