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Iowa National Board Candidate Support Program

The Master of Education in Teaching Degree encourages teachers to grow as professionals, to remain life long learners, and to enrich their own lives and the lives of their students and the community by increasing their knowledge and skills through reflective practice. The program fosters professional integrity and encourages the mutual respect of learning communities

Program Overview
The Master of Education in Teaching program is designed to enhance the skills, knowledge and dispositions of licensed teachers through the delivery of a standards-based curriculum that focuses on professional teaching outcomes as identified by the Iowa Quality Teaching Standards and the National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards.

Program Goals
The goals of the St. Ambrose Master of Education in Teaching program are based on the Iowa Teaching Quality Standards and cross referenced with the National Board for Professional

Teaching Standards:

• Demonstrates ability to enhance academic performance
  and support for implementation of the school district
  achievement goals (NBPTS 1).
• Demonstrates competence in content knowledge appropriate
  to teaching position (NBPTS 2).
• Demonstrates competence in planning and preparing for
  instruction (NBPTS 2 and 4).
• Uses strategies to deliver instruction that meets the multiple
  learning needs of students (NBPTS 1).
• Uses a variety of methods to monitor student learning
  (NBPTS 3).
• Demonstrates competence in classroom management
  (NBPTS 3).
• Engages in professional growth (NBPTS 4).
• Fulfills professional responsibilities established by the
  school district (NBPTS 5).