2021-2022 Graduate Academic Catalog

M.Ed. in Innovative Pedagogies in Early Childhood 33 credits

This program will allow educators to develop skills in: environments, materials, provocations, documentation, family engagement, citizenship, and the vision of the capable, investigative, meaning-making young child, through the example of the schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It will also give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in Reggio-inspired classrooms in the Boston area through internships, learning directly from master teachers and developing their own culturally responsive pedagogies. Teachers will have the option to join a study tour to Italy, to learn in the Reggio community itself. The program offers the opportunity to develop an additional concentration. Students will emerge with versatile perspectives and understandings that will allow them to become early childhood leaders.

Students who hold a Massachusetts Initial license in Early Childhood (PK-2) are eligible for Professional Licensure in Early Childhood in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon completion of the program. 

In this program, EARED 6002 will be taken for three credits.

Program of Study

Required Courses 9 credits

EEDUC 5815Innovative Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education Seminar

3

EEDUC 5300Environment and Materials in Reggio-Inspired Teaching and Learning

3

EEDUC 6139A Pedagogy of Play

3

Elective Courses 9 credits

EEDUC 6058Anti-Bias Communities in Early Childhood

3

EEDUC 5115Families, Society, and Schools

3

EEDUC 5301Reggio Emilia-Inspired Study Tour: Collaboration, Inspiration, and Interpretation

3

EEDUC 6017Advanced Reflections on the Reggio Emilia Approach

3

EEDUC 5138Literacy, Literature, and the Arts in the Early Childhood Classroom

3

EEDUC 5130Early Childhood STEAM and Health

3

EEDUC 5045Learning Environments for Infants and Toddlers

3

Concentration Courses 15 credits

Select 5 in consultation with your advisor. 

Language and Literacy

EEDUC 5137Language and Literacy Development in the Early Years

3

EEDUC 6174Literature for Children, Tweens, and Teens in a Diverse Society

3

EEDUC 6001The Teaching of Writing (K-12)

3

Bilingual Learners

EECLD 6001Culturally Responsive Teaching

3

EECLD 6002Essential Linguistics: What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Language

3

EECLD 6004First and Second Language Acquisition and Oral Development

3

Arts Integration

EARED 6002Integrated Arts Strategies for Inclusive Settings

2-3

EARED 6003Equity, Access, and Inclusion through Arts Based Inquiry

3

EARED 6111Principles and Practices of Art Education (PreK-8)

3

The Inclusive Classroom

ESPED 6130Speech, Language, and AAC

3

ESPED 5114Universal Curriculum Design and Assistive Technology

3

ESPED 5037Strategies for Inclusive Schooling

3