Follow Your Dreams -- Teach -- Make a Difference

Add a New Dimension to Your Classroom

Invest in Your Teaching Careerby Richard Binkney, Ph.D.

It’s Exactly What You Have Been Waiting For

Mercer University - Tift College of Education

Approved by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission


Conveniently Available At Your Own Home


Or From Your Own Place Of Work


Or Even While Traveling


Mercer University’s Master’s Degree in ECE (T-5) &

Ed. S. in the Teacher as Leader (T-6)


• Earn your M.Ed. (T-5) or Ed.S. (T-6) in as little as 1 year with 10 courses in a hybrid accelerated 8 week format

• Innovative graduate program learning focused on teachers in the classroom

• Hybrid online instructional format with on campus classes available


Features of the Hybrid Graduate Program


• Classes meet in the classroom and online

• One Saturday meeting every semester

• Other campus meetings will be offered at the request of students or as needed

M.Ed. (T-5) in ECE

• Offered within the 10 coursehybrid program is an optionalReading Endorsement or ESOL Endorsement

• Online work will be in Mercer’scourse management system – Blackboard


Ed.S. (T-6) Teacher as a LeaderOptional Reading Endorsement or ESOL Endorsement

available within the 10 course hybrid program


What an Ed.S. (T-6) Degree Will Do For Me

• Become a professional educator who can make a difference in the classroom

• Be a Teacher Leader who canlead systemic improvement and use data to drive instruction

• Become a subject matter expert in instruction,classroom management, curriculum, and school structures


Sample Hybrid M.Ed. On-Line Teaching Format Guide -

•Fall Semester - 3 classes•Spring Semester - 3 classes•Summer Semester - 4 classes


Personalized, individualized, and group optional tutoring available by professors on a scheduled bi-weekly basis


Face-to-face review and enrichmentsessions with professors

once a semester on Saturdays


Optional meetings with facultyare offered on a bi-weekly

basis as needed

Full-time professional technology support

and assistance available as needed


Graduate Degree Benefits

• Become the Superior Teacher that you want to be

• Put more money each monthinto your pocketbook with a higher college degree

• Increase your total annual income

• Increase your total retirement benefits with a master’s degree


Academic Benefits

• Gain best practices of teaching and learning• Learn to apply the skills of data analysis and action

research to your own classroom• Achieve professional development and growth

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• Advance Your Career as a professional• Secure Your Future with a graduate degree that

gives you the edge in the marketplace where experience and training count most.

More Benefits


• Diversified Instruction that maximizes opportunities for active learning and service based experiences

• Integrated Curriculum that promotes the learning-centered classroom and cultural diversity• Use of Response to Intervention to enhance learning for all students• Incorporating Best Teaching Practices in your class• Conducting Authentic Assessment and Data Analysis• Engaging in relevant Action Research

Innovative Career-Relevant Program Offers


Program Academic Highlights• Integrate theory and practice• Forge learning communities• Use inclusive cultural diversity strategies• Apply technology effectively to classrooms• Create your own model to ensure lifelong

success for students at all levels • Engage in Reflective Analysis

All That Is Missing Is You


• Learn how to publish your own research in state and national journals and learn how to write grants that get funded

• Master the art of making presentations at state and national conferences


• Make a difference• Become an innovator• Effect change and improve student learning

Set Your Goals


Reach for the Stars• Distinguish yourself as a

teacher leader• Open more doors of

opportunity• Develop a solid foundation

for career success & mobility

• Exemplify professionalism as a life-long learner


• Possess a T-4 in Early Childhood • GPA of 2.75 or better• Submit satisfactory test scores• GRE - target of 800 combined score • MAT - target of 397 total score

(scores less than 6 years old, please)

M.Ed. Graduate Admission Requirements


Ed.S. (T-6) Admission Requirements

• Possess a Master’s Degree orhold a T-5 Certificate in any teaching field

• Graduate GPA of 3.5 or better• Submit satisfactory test scores• GRE - target of 900 combined

score • MAT- target of 406 total score

(scores less than 6 years old, please)


Don’t Forget

One Official TranscriptFrom All PreviousColleges Attended


How to Apply

Please contactMs. Evelene Johnson

678/[email protected]

or Mercer.Edu/AdultPrograms go to – Graduate Programs go to – Graduate Education


• Financial Aid may be Available forQualified Applicants

• Phone: 678-547-6050• www.mercer.edu/finaid/rac• www.gacollege411.org• www.fafsa.com


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• Dr. Catherine Gardner, Ph.D.• Chair – Henry - Douglas -

Coweta – Forsyth County• Regional Centers• Tift College of Education• Mercer University• 160 Henry Parkway• McDonough, GA 30253• 678-547-6327• [email protected]

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Mercer University is accredited by:GPSC - Georgia Professional Standards CommissionSACS - Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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