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Course Overview

The School of Education at AUD offers a Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree focused on the essential work of teacher education for practicing and prospective teachers who love children and aspire to excellence.

Real-world, interactive learning takes place in a dynamic classroom setting. Students engage in case study analyses, personalized research projects and presentations, visual thinking routines, supervised fieldwork, and benefit from individualized mentoring by a faculty advisor.

The graduate degree program is designed  with a number of target audiences in mind:

  • Practicing elementary and secondary school teachers or teaching assistants who may or may not  have an undergraduate degree in Education
  • Career changers who are passionate about making a difference in children’s lives
  •  University graduates who have no prior teaching experience and wish to pursue a graduate degree in education with the intention of working in fields related to education.

Upon completion of the Master of Education (M.Ed.) program, students will:

  • Be an effective part of an educational team within a creative learning environment;
  • Be able to understand the political, social and cultural contexts of education;
  • Be able to differentiate instruction to meet students’ unique learning needs and create environments that are conducive to student learning and development;
  • Be able to meet the challenges of teaching by designing and implementing an effective classroom management plan;
  • Be able to use assessment data to improve instruction, advance student learning, and better design content-specific instruction;
  • Be able to identify, locate, evaluate, design, prepare, and use technology as an instructional resource; and,
  • Be able to conduct research and utilize important findings to inform current practices and make new contributions to the field of education.

Entry Requirement 

Admission Requirements:

  • An undergraduate degree from an accredited national or regional institutional body, achieving a 3.00 GPA or better in undergraduate study.
  • International TOEFL®or Academic IELTSTM or the equivalent score on another internationally-recognized English exam. PBT is accepted from specific centers in the UAE.

English Language Requirements:

All students must achieve a TOEFL® score of 550 (79 IBT) or Academic IELTS score of 6.5 or an equivalent score in a test approved by the U.A.E. MOE-HEA. The University’s TOEFL® code is 0063.

  • A native speaker of English who has completed his or her undergraduate education in English medium institution in a country where English is the official language
  • A student who has completed his or her undergraduate education in an American Accredited institution.
  • A student admitted to and graduated from an English medium institution who can provide evidence of having achieved (upon admission to the undergraduate program) a TOEFL® score of 500 or Academic IELTSTM score of 6.0 or its standardized equivalent approved by the U.A.E. Ministry of Education – Higher Education Affairs (MOE-HEA).

Fees

Non-refundable application fee of AED 420. A reservation deposit (non-refundable) of AED 2000 which is fully applied toward tuition is required upon acceptance for admission.


This information was accurate on : 24/02/2021
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