Attention seniors and other upperclassmen in the education department. Cabrini’s education department is known as one of the best online master’s programs according to intelligent.com. Cabrini was just one of two colleges in the southeast Pennsylvania area.
What is Intelligent.com?
Intelligent.com is a website that rates products and services and has compared 350 education programs all over the United States. The website also educates its readers on masters programs and the importance of getting a master’s degree for education majors.
According to intelligent.com, public school teachers are paid 17% less than other college-educated-professionals. Getting your masters will make a big difference in the long run. In Washington, teachers with master’s degrees earn about $20,000 more than teachers with bachelor’s degrees.
“It was a real honor to have that distinction because if you look at the top 30 people that were nominated, we were the only one that was nominated and to be nominated for an online master’s program takes us to a whole other level,” Bryde Beverly, dean of education for Cabrini, said.
Cabrini’s students voice their opinions
“I transferred here from East Stroudsburg and Cabrini’s education program it’s a lot better,” Tyler Cross, senior education major said. “It’s more engaging, you get a lot more of field experience, I also like the classes.”
Cabrini’s education program has an engagement, gets the students involved and in the field. Which is why students like Cross are considering the master’s program at Cabrini.
Education majors know that earning a master’s degree can lead to promotions and increased earning.
“The increasing levels of requirements of teachers is hard because teachers now have to go back to school because of technology,” Bailey Ehasz, junior education major, said. “Which is for the better in some ways but in a lot of ways it is deterring.”
In order for teachers to obtain a masters at Cabrini, a person first has to decide on what he or she wants to teach. The options are special-ed, PreK-4 and secondary education and administrative education.
Cabrini’s master’s program directions
No matter what direction he or she decides on, every master’s degree needs to complete a bachelors degree first and teachers also need to get certified in their specific areas in order to get their masters.
Each program is 48 credits long. Every master’s student has nine core credits to take. The core classes are EDG 501 educational research, EDG 521 (sociocultural foundations of education) and EDG 540 philosophical foundations of education.
After the core classes, below is an example of other classes a master’s student must take.
Early Elementary Levels
Level I
EDG 515 Introduction to Schooling
EDG 537 Cognition and Developmental Psychology
Level II
EDG 505 Introduction to the Exceptional Learner
EDG 503 curriculum methods pre-K-4 I
EDG 504 Curriculum Methods Pre-K-4 II
EDG 538 Assessment in PK-12 Inclusive Classrooms
EDG 546 English Language Learners in Inclusive Classrooms
Level III
EDG 547 Classroom Management
EDG 541 Elementary Reading/Language Arts
EDG 549 Teaching Writing/Language Arts
EDG 520 Teaching Elementary Mathematics
EDG 509 Teaching Elementary Science and Health
EDG 510 Teaching Elementary Social Studies
EDU 289 Movement for Children (1 credit)
Level IV
EDU 402 Pre-Student Teaching (2 credits)
EDU 490 Student Teaching, Grades PreK-4 (3-12 credits)
Just like undergrad, graduate school is a long process but Cabrini is one of two schools nominated as the best online master’s program.
