By earning your Master of Arts in Education, you will join generations of Clarke University graduates as leaders in classrooms and communities across the country. Our faculty combine their years of teaching experience with the most up-to-date research on engagement and brain-based learning.
Our degree program grants you an informative and empowering approach to curriculum development and instruction. Beyond the classroom, you’ll also sharpen your analytical skills to better understand the social, ethical, economic, and political issues at play in the world around you. Earning an advanced degree in education prepares you for new challenges in your teaching career, from research to taking on roles in education administration.
As recently approved by the State of Iowa, Clarke now offers a special education endorsement that covers grades K-12 and encompasses Strategist I and Strategist II. If you already have a special education endorsement, you can upgrade a K-8 endorsement to a K-12 endorsement with just two classes. These and all our courses were designed by teachers, for teachers. We expertly blend theory and application into 8-week sessions so you can immediately implement each lesson into your curriculum and instruction.
Additional Endorsements include:
It is no secret that as rewarding as a career in education may be, it also comes with challenges. As part of your master’s degree in education, you’ll have the opportunity to network with other experienced and highly motivated professionals from our region. Our courses encourage you not to just learn alongside your peers but to learn from each other. With the discussion features in each course, you can receive feedback from professors and classmates about techniques you’re trying to improve or new ones you’d like to introduce in the classroom. Thanks to the fully online format, you’ll have access to this engaged community day or night.
At just $325 per credit, we are one of the most cost-effective programs in the state of Iowa. We also offer 4+1 and Early Access options for undergraduates at Clarke University who want to expand their knowledge base before entering the field.
Our graduate education courses are designed to build upon your experience, knowledge, skills, and teaching strategies. Moreover, they are based upon current research as well as time-tested teaching and learning principles. We offer a solid foundation of integrated theory and practice that complements your experience in the classroom. If you hold a licensure in elementary or secondary education, our curriculum will help you enhance your knowledge, skills, values, and confidence as a professional educator.
Applicants are considered on an individual basis.
My teaching philosophy is best summed up by Ernst von Glasersfeld: ‘The art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge. It’s fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.’
Clarke students delight my heart, soul, and mind! I hope to empower students to expand and build new knowledge.
I believe that it is my role to create and maintain a classroom environment that allows students to construct, deconstruct and reconstruct their learning in alignment with the content presented.
I would recommend this program to others because the professors go above and beyond to help you. I’ve felt that what I’ve learned, I’ve been able to apply directly to my own classrooms and I’ve had the autonomy to choose some of the classes that would best benefit me, my classroom, and my school.
Every class that I have taken has provided me with actionable moves within my daily work. I was awarded three grants that I completed within the grant writing course, so the overlap of my work in class and the impact on my work at school has been incredible.
Clarke’s education program gave me a great amount of hands-on experience in the classroom. The education professors truly care about you as an individual, student, and future teacher! The education department was my family away from home.
