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Advance Your Alabama Teaching Career with a Master’s Degree

Being an elementary educator means you can be integral to shaping and developing core competencies in young learners’ academic journey. The best way to do that is by constantly evolving, growing, learning new techniques to enhance to your teaching, and positively impacting your students and school district to the best of your abilities. Earning an advanced degree in elementary education can help prepare you to be a teacher leader in your community and school district.

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The Master of Arts in Elementary Education is designed for individuals with a bachelor’s degree in education and current Class B certification in elementary education. 

Coursework takes between 30 and 33 semester hours to complete and includes courses in teaching reading and language development, critical pedagogy, teaching diverse populations, and data literacy. A program checklist can be found on the right, and course-specific information may be found in the UAB Graduate Catalog.

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Curriculum

The curriculum for this program is fully online. Students in this program take courses in teaching reading and language development, critical pedagogy, teaching diverse populations, and data literacy to name a few.

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Why Elementary Education at UAB?

Accredited

The Counsel for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation and the Alabama State Department of Education accredits the UAB Elementary Education program. Learn more about accreditation.

Research Opportunities

The elementary education program allows students to complete research projects or presentations alongside award-winning School of Education and Human Sciences faculty.