EDUCATION AT ILLINOIS ONLINE PROGRAMS

Illinois Pre K-12 Teachers

BILINGUAL & ESL EDUCATION provides you with a better understanding of key teaching strategies to support multilingual students in the classroom. You'll have the opportunity to learn how to create more engaging learning environments by integrating new media technologies for all students, regardless of language. You'll learn research-based curricular and instructional strategies, including the use of new digital media to effectively teach students for whom English is a second language.
ENDORSEMENT 

BILINGUAL & BI-CULTURAL EDUCATION provides all educators with a better understanding of key teaching strategies that can help support multilingual students in their classrooms. It aligns with the course sequence for The Bilingual and ESL Endorsements, designed for Illinois educators who wish to add an endorsement to their Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL). Students will learn research-based curricular and instructional strategies, including the effective use of new digital media to teach students for whom English is a Second Language.
CERTIFICATE   |   MASTER OF EDUCATION  

DIVERSITY & EQUITY IN EDUCATION is a social-justice oriented program that provides you with transformative approaches to issues related to diversity and equity in P-16 learning environments. Courses will help teachers, administrators, school staff, and other educators to understand how diversity and equity relates to learning theories, leadership, and pedagogy. Our interdisciplinary approach to diversity and equity will cover the intersections of disability, race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, and poverty.
CERTIFICATE   |   MASTER OF EDUCATION    |   DOCTOR OF EDUCATION

LEARNING DESIGN & LEADERSHIP provides you with the opportunity to learn how to create more engaging learning environments by integrating new media technologies. LDL encourages students to be active designers of their own knowledge, in contrast to old teaching, in which knowledge was handed down to them. Students use new digital media to enhance the ways in which they can learn and understand, thus improving the learning process. It also addresses the challenges of differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. Instructional technologies such as computer-based instruction, computer-based testing, distance learning, interactive video, and intelligent instructional technologies are covered. 
CERTIFICATE   |   MASTER OF EDUCATION   |   DOCTOR OF EDUCATION

NEW LEARNING is designed to help you create more engaging learning environments for your students and to integrate new media technologies into the classroom. This program focuses on how students use new digital media to enhance the ways they learn and understand, thus improving the learning process. 
CERTIFICATE   |   MASTER OF EDUCATION 

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST prepares you to better understand technology and know how to use it in your classroom. You will learn about emerging technologies and their implications on teaching and learning. 
CERTIFICATE   |   ENDORSEMENT   |   MASTER OF EDUCATION   |   DOCTOR OF EDUCATION

Illinois Pre K-12 Seasoned Teachers, Principals, and Superintendents

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP offers graduates a program that embraces the broad array of leadership positions in elementary/secondary education. Educational leadership and practice are emphasized in the program. Specialized study provides preparation leading to an Illinois Principal's License.
CERTIFICATE OF ADVANCED STUDY   |   MASTER OF EDUCATION  |  DOCTOR OF EDUCATION  |  DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

SUPERINTENDENT SPECIALIZATION is designed to prepare graduate students for administrative positions in Pre K-12 public and private schools. Through coursework and supervised internships students are provided with multiple learning opportunities enabling them to critically examine the administrative leadership process.
CERTIFICATE OF ADVANCED STUDY   |   DOCTOR OF EDUCATION  |  DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY