The Ed.M. in Early Childhood/Elementary Education is intended for certified teachers who wish to continue their study of learning and teaching in early childhood/elementary settings. The program has goals to foster a vision of learning as an active process in which students construct their own knowledge and understandings and to foster a vision of teaching that promotes depth of understanding and problem solving rather than mere curriculum coverage and that recognizes children s individual and cultural differences.

The Ed.M. in Early Childhood/Elementary Education is intended for certified teachers who wish to continue their study of learning and teaching in early childhood/elementary settings. The program has goals to foster a vision of learning as an active process in which students construct their own knowledge and understandings and to foster a vision of teaching that promotes depth of understanding and problem solving rather than mere curriculum coverage and that recognizes children s individual and cultural differences.

The five-year teacher education program in special education and elementary education (K-6) leads to a bachelor s degree, a master s degree, and initial teacher certification. Rutgers undergraduates do preliminary coursework and field placements as assigned during the sophomore and junior years, are admitted to the program during the spring semester of the junior year, and enter the professional education sequence in the summer between junior and senior years. Students then qualify to have their bachelor s degree awarded by the undergraduate liberal arts college.