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High student achievement depends on high quality teachers. Teachers need to develop
increasingly complex content knowledge as well as the capacity to offer well-designed,
motivational instruction. They must understand the historical, social, and political dimensions of schools and be competent collaborators with other educators, families, and community
organizations. In addition, teaching in the 21st century demands that teachers be effective users of technology.

The Learning by Designonline masters program enables teachers to move ahead as professionals in all of these areas by focusing on three strands of development:

Courses will prepare teachers to be critical readers of educational research and to engage in action research of their own design to improve their teaching.

Courses will deepen teachers' knowledge of effective teaching and learning in relationship to the content demands of today’s standards and assessments. The focus of this strand will be on instruction that meets the needs of all learners, including those with unique learner profiles and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Courses will develop teachers' capacity to infuse technology into their instruction and use it to network and communicate in an increasingly global society.

The IU School of Education is committed to providing programs of study that prepare teachers to be catalysts for positive change in urban schools.

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