Graduate and Professional Studies at McDaniel maintains the prerogative to require additional course work to more closely correspond with its expectations in content preparation and to reflect currency of knowledge.

Candidates must also have completed, or complete simultaneously during BEST course work, a three or four-credit  undergraduate Introduction to Psychology course.

Candidates will not gain Full Acceptance to the BEST program without meeting these academic requirements.

For more information, see the BEST Program Handbook (PDF).

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Graduate Program of Study

Education and Concentration Courses
EDU 580 Learning and Teaching in Today's Schools (3 credits)
EDU 581 Linking Instruction and Assessment (3)
SLM 521 Telecommunications and the Internet (3)
Field Experience Practicum (0)
RDG 532 Reading in the Content Areas I (3)
RDG 534 Reading in the Content Areas II (3)
EDU 594 Action Research I (3)
EDU 610–621 Instructional Plans in [subject area] (3)
EDU 595 Action Research II (3)
EDU 598 Final Full-Time Internship and Seminar—Middle School (4)
EDU 599 Final Full-Time Internship and Seminar—High School (4)
EDU 600 Final Full-Time Internship and Seminar—Elementary (for PreK-12 areas) (4)
EDU 601 Final Full-Time Internship and Seminar—Secondary (for PreK-12 areas) (4)

Synthesis Courses
PSY 502 Human Growth and Development--Child (for PreK-12 areas) (3)
PSY 503 Human Growth and Development—Adolescent (3)
SOC 508 Culture and Diversity (3)
SED 572 Issues in Inclusive Education (3)

TOATAL: 44 - 47 credits