High Impact Practices in Online Education Graduate Certificate

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.

Admission Criteria:

To be eligible to apply to graduate certificate programs, you must:

• have an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• have an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher (waivers can be granted based on professional work experience and other factors).

How to apply:

• Complete the application via the online portal
• Submit a $25 nonrefundable application fee. (Waived for Elizabethtown College graduates).
• Upload your current resume.
• Request official transcripts from all undergraduate institutions attended.
• Upload a 1-2 page essay addressing your:
  • motivation for pursuing the graduate certificate
  • statement of professional goals
  • goals for the application of the graduate certificate to your professional life

Those students who successfully complete a graduate certificate and wish to pursue a full master’s degree program will benefit from an abbreviated admission process (see below). Degree-seeking students must meet all of the established criteria for admission into their desired master’s degree program.

Advance to Stacked Graduate Certificate/Degree

After successfully completing their primary graduate certificate, students may complete the Advance in Graduate Certificate or Degree form in the JayWeb student portal to apply to a future graduate certificate or graduate degree. Additional materials may be required, depending on the program of interest.