Designed for individuals who hold a bachelor's degree in an area other than education, our master's in elementary education prepares you to navigate the steps toward New York State requirements, which leads to teacher certification in grades 1-6.
Meet our education faculty.
About the Program
At Medaille, we know you need graduate education programs that train you for a lifetime of teaching success. Our programs are specifically designed to meet those needs and prepare you to navigate the steps toward New York State or Canadian requirements in elementary education, which leads to certification.
Whether you've earned a bachelor's degree in education, or in an unrelated field, such as communication, business, etc., our master's in education programs are formatted to prepare you to navigate the steps toward New York State elementary school teacher certification in grades 1-6.
Whether you choose to take classes on weekdays or weekends, you can earn your degree in just 16 months
Program Specs
Campus:
Buffalo; fall and spring starts
Credits:
42 credits
Delivery:
Weekly on Monday and Tuesday or every other weekend on Saturday and Sunday (7 weekends a semester)
Faculty:
Practitioner-educators with real-world experience as teachers and administrators
Accreditation:
Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP)
What can you do with a master's in elementary education?
After graduating with an Elementary Education Master’s degree, Buffalo graduates have gone on to careers as:
Elementary School Teachers
Teacher Aides
Substitute Teachers
Daycare Teachers
Educational Consultants
M.S.Ed. Elementary Curriculum
ECI 535 Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Shaping Culturally Inclusive Classrooms (3)
EDU 507 Dignity for All Students Act Seminar (0)
ECI 510 Research in Education (3)
ECI 610 Transitions from Education’s Roots to the Present (3)
EDL 550 Developmental Literacy: Emergence to Fluency (3)
EDL 571 Technology for the Elementary Classroom (3)
EDL 650 Assessment and Evaluation of Literacy (3)
EDU 500 The Core of Education (3)
EDU 502 Education Methods of Teaching: Math and Science (3)
EDU 503 Education Methods of Teaching: The Arts, Language Arts and Social Studies (3)
EDU 504 Early Field Experience/Seminar: Physical Education, Family/Consumer Sciences (3)
EDU 511 Fieldwork I (0)
EDU 512 Fieldwork II (0)
ESP 600 Foundations of Special Education (3)
EDU 506 Child Abuse Awareness/SAVE Seminar (0)
EDU 577 Student Teaching (6)
EDU 693 Elementary Education Portfolio (3)
Program News
Department of Education Assistant Professor Dr. Caitlin Riegel, the program director for Medaille’s M.S.Ed. adolescent/secondary education and M.S.Ed. elementary education programs, gave a presentation at the national Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference this summer, focused on tools and tips for teaching in a post-COVID world and the smooth transition between in-person and online modalities.
