Early Childhood Education, MSE - Teaching Option

What you will study

Hone your teaching strategies and boost your early childhood teacher qualifications with graduate coursework based on research and best practices. UCM’s master’s-level ECE degree program will also ensure that you can apply your classroom knowledge in a variety of early childhood education teaching environments, serving students with diverse educational needs. To strengthen your early childhood teacher qualifications, you can choose from a variety of electives, including:

• Teaching Strategies and the Classroom Environment for Active, Engaged Learning
• Multicultural Education: Beliefs, Curriculum and Pedagogy
• STEM in Early Childhood Education

The combination of core courses and electives offers well-rounded perspectives and insights on how to better assess students, integrate STEM into your curricula and create active, engaged learning environments as part of your early childhood education teaching.

 

 

Unique learning opportunities in teaching early childhood education

Gain meaningful early childhood education teaching experiences in the field and personalized instruction in the classroom that you can apply in your own career:

• Professional skills: Our master’s in Teaching ECE degree program is designed to help you adapt, enhance and improve classroom instruction for children from birth through grade 3. 
• Informed teaching strategies: A master’s in Early Childhood Education from UCM will give you the tools to serve as a teacher-leader and apply research-based practices in your classroom and school.
• Diverse learning settings: Prepare for a successful and rewarding career that can take you many places, from an early childhood center to public or private preschools or elementary schools. 
• Early childhood education teacher certification: In addition to your master’s degree for Teaching Early Childhood Education, you can earn professional credentials through the graduate program coursework that further enhance your early childhood education teacher qualifications.

 

What can you do with a master’s-level ECE degree in Teaching from UCM?

This UCM master’s degree in Early Childhood Education will sharpen your early childhood education teaching strategies and build on your work experience in the classroom. ECE teachers with early childhood education teacher certifications can find jobs in a variety of child care and classroom settings, especially public and private schools teaching Pre-K through 3rd grade.

ECE teacher jobs

Use the interactive tool below to find more information on salary potential, job growth and career possibilities in early childhood education teaching.

 

 

Financial assistance options for your master’s in ECE degree for teachers

You can build upon your early childhood teacher qualifications and pursue your graduate ECE degree in Teaching affordably. As a university recognized for its low student debt, UCM offers plenty of resources to help working graduate students finance their college education. Our College of Education also offers scholarships to ECE students.

You can learn more about program-specific scholarships with the UCM Scholarship Finder.

Student Learning Outcomes

With a Master of Science in Education degree in Early Childhood Education (ECE), you will use the knowledge and skills obtained in the program to achieve the following professional skills:

• Demonstrate and apply understandings of early childhood development, including theoretical perspectives on how children learn through play collaborating with a diverse population of peers to create meaning in today’s society.
• Acquire fundamental knowledge of a play-based curriculum for support and advocacy in implementation in the early childhood setting.
• Develop a strong sense of ethical conduct within early childhood teaching, learning, and business.
• Identify significant issues specific to early childhood education in research and address through practice.
• Better understand the impact of pedagogy and exposure to diversity for teaching in an increasingly complex and diverse society.

 

Admission Requirements

To be accepted into the Master of Science in Education in Early Childhood Education (ECE) degree program, you must: (a) have a minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 2.75; (b) submit proof of teacher certification or professional endorsement from any of the 50 states or territories and have graduated from a CAEP or regionally accredited university; (c) submit a copy of your last summative teaching evaluation, or a letter from a school superintendent, principal, director, or professor attesting to teaching skills and/or graduate studies potential.