New Graduate Degree in Early Childhood Education
at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus
– Program to begin fall 2009 –

Brooklyn, N.Y. –A leader in urban education, the School of Education at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will offer a new master’s degree for teaching children at the earliest ages. Approved by the New York State Education Department, the M.S.Ed. in Early Childhood (Birth-Grade 2) program will begin this fall.

The new curriculum equips students to effectively address the educational, social and cultural concerns of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and young school-age children, especially those living in urban environments.

“We are a multicultural society, and classrooms for young children must embrace our different strengths,” said Cecelia Traugh, dean of the School of Education. “For example, many children who live in urban communities do not have English as their first language. We made sure that this thread is woven into the coursework and scholarship of this new master’s program.”

In addition to this new program in early childhood education, the Brooklyn Campus offers a dual certification program in M.S.Ed. in Early Childhood/Childhood Urban Education (Birth-Grade 6). For those with prior certification, a ten-credit Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood Education (Birth-Grade 2) is available.

Other master’s degree programs in education include adolescent education, special education, teaching English as a second language and bilingual education, as well as school counseling and school psychology. For the convenience of working students, classes in the School of Education meet in the late afternoon and evening.

“Teaching has much to offer,” notes Dean Traugh. “Added to the potential for great personal career satisfaction, are excellent salaries and benefits.”

For more information on Education degree programs, call the Brooklyn Campus Admissions Office at (718) 499-1011, e-mail admissions@brooklyn.liu.edu or visit http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/education/home/index.html.

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Posted: March 11, 2009