Graduate Programs

Program Mission Statement

The Counselor Education Program prepares counselors who have developed sound practical skills through experiential learning; who have acquired a comprehensive theoretical knowledge base; who hold a strong counselor identity; and who possess the personal dispositions necessary to work in various professional settings with diverse clientele.

Program Responsibilities

The Counselor Education Program believes it has responsibilities to current graduate candidates and to their future clients. Additionally, the department believes it has a responsibility to collaborate with the communities within which it works, to continue to grow as a program, and to model professional involvement and identity.

Program Objectives

• The program will prepare and graduate skilled, knowledgeable, self-aware and self-reflective counselors who are prepared academically to seek licensure.

• The program will support faculty to collaborate with the community, its agencies and schools, to aid in learning opportunities for graduate students.

• The program will continually evaluate the curriculum, practices, and requirements to promote the highest quality education.

• The program will support faculty to model professional identity through involvement in professional organizations, attaining leadership positions.

  Program Learning Outcomes for Counselor Education, MEd

  Graduate Candidate Competencies

• The graduate candidate implements sound practical therapeutic and relational skills that reflect current practice.

• The graduate candidate possesses a comprehensive theoretical knowledge base that can be integrated and transferred to effective counseling relationships and techniques.

• The graduate candidate expresses a strong counselor identity through involvement and participation in professional organizations, advocacy, trainings, workshops, seminars, or other continuing education opportunities.

• The graduate candidate demonstrates a self-aware and self-reflective stance that allows for growth and the personal dispositions necessary to work in the counseling field.

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  Program Mission Statement 

  The Instruction and Learning Program mission is firmly grounded in a vision of and commitment to learning environments in which all learners have access to educational opportunities, choices, and experiences that enable them to achieve at the peak of their potential. The professional education programs are designed for delivery through innovative and efficacious systems that provide professional development and excellent educational experiences to diverse populations in a geographically and economically challenged region. To this end, we provide a variety of rich, intentional, and meaningful experiences designed to support candidates’ development of appropriate dispositions, knowledge, skills, traits and habits for their fields. Through this educational experience, graduate candidates prepare to impact students’ lives and learning and to take leadership roles in classrooms, schools, and beyond. 

  Program Responsibilities 

  The Instruction and Learning Program believes it has responsibilities to current graduate candidates and to their future clients. Additionally, the faculty believes it has a responsibility to collaborate with the communities within which it works, to continue to grow as a program, and to model professional involvement and identity. 

  Program Objectives 

  - The program will prepare and graduate candidates capable of identifying and analyzing contemporary issues in education and examine their effect on instructional practice in culturally responsive learning environment. 

  - The program will prepare and graduate candidates capable of conducting classroom action research using quantitative and qualitative methods in your classroom, school district and community to improve instruction and learning. 

  - The program can document the effects of instruction of students using assessment and evaluation methodologies that accurately reflect student performance. 

  - The program will prepare and graduate candidates that demonstrate critical thinking, creative thinking, reflective thinking and self-regulation in a professional learning environments. 

  - The program will prepare graduate candidates that demonstrate and promote the integration of technology in professional learning environments. 

  - The program will prepare graduate candidates who have increased awareness and intervention skills in mental health, suicide awareness, and collaborative problem-solving change processes. 

  Program Learning Outcomes for Instruction and Learning, MS in Education 

  Graduate Candidate Competencies 

  - The ability to identify and analyze contemporary issues in education and examine effects on instructional practice in culturally responsive learning environments. 

  - The ability to conduct research using quantitative and qualitative methods in professional learning environments to improve instruction and learning. 

  - An ability to document the effects of instruction using assessment and evaluation methodologies that accurately reflect student performance. 

  - Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, creative thinking, reflective thinking and self-regulation in professional learning environments.  

  - The ability to demonstrate and promote the integration of technology in progessional learning environments.  

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