Graduate Certificate in High Impact Practices in Online Education

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of curriculum mapping, theory, models, and pedagogical approaches.
• Apply these models, theories, and pedagogical approaches in their own practice, across sociocultural contexts, and in diverse learning environments.
• Display commitment and leadership for building learning communities through collaborative strategies and among key stakeholders, including students, parents, educators, and staff.
• Use and apply formal and informal assessment strategies to promote and evaluate the continual intellectual, social-emotional, and personal development of all learners.
• Use and apply instructional technologies to promote and evaluate the continual intellectual, social-emotional, and personal development of all learners.
• Design and conduct action research that explores learning strategies related to classroom, community, or cross-disciplinary issues.

To be admitted into an Online Instruction Endorsement Program, candidates must have completed a baccalaureate program and/or hold an Instructional I or Instructional II Pennsylvania certificate.

The program will include field experience that appropriately synthesizes and applies program instruction in a real-world context. Candidates will work with program advisors to secure a K-12 school partner for this experience. The experience can be tailored and differentiated to match the candidates’ professional goals related to their desired role(s) within a K-12 system. The field experience will contain adequate rigor that both demonstrates practical application of coursework as well as provide new opportunities for professional growth.