This 1-credit, required graduate professionalization seminar is the designated professional “boot camp” for the Master of Science in Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education. Seminar students, most of whom are full-time classroom teachers or Instructional Coaches in the U.S. and abroad, deepen their knowledge and skills necessary for online learning, scholarly inquiry and research, and professional growth as educators.

Students engage in career-building units geared towards both professional and scholarly growth, effective networking and educator-brand creation, professional digital portfolio and website development, and establishing and maintaining an online professional presence.

This course supports students who are earning their master’s degrees while working full time, including teachers straight out of their undergraduate preparatory programs, veteran teachers with decades of experience, new or soon-to-be instructional coaches and consultants, teachers living and teaching English abroad, teachers of Gifted students, teachers within bilingual or Dual Language programs, full-time tutors in university settings, and more. Enrolled master’s students’ grades taught ranged from Kindergarten to higher education.

In this course, students also learn how to use proper APA 7 citation and other basic tools of scholarly research, such as how to identify, access, and read peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as how to curate annotated bibliographies. Students used their EDCI 52002 annotated bibliography assignments to (1) better support their classrooms with research-based findings, (2) leverage their research-based findings to promote their causes to their administrative teams, and/or (3) prepare for the literature review of their master’s thesis Action Research Projects (ARP).

2020–Present: Lecturer