Director: Claudine Bedell

The Graduate Education Program is committed to awakening and sustaining the spirit of teaching and learning through nurturing the following characteristics in its faculty and in its students: dignity and diversity; character and community; knowledge and wisdom.

Graduate Programs in Education include the 36 credit Master of Education degree (M.Ed.), the 30 credit Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (C.A.G.S. program), and the initial Vermont teaching license. All programs are designed for educators interested in kindergarten through 12th grade teaching or administration in public and private settings. For the M. Ed. and C.A.G.S., students choose courses that follow a concentration in Arts, Curriculum, Reading, School Leadership, or Special Education. For the initial Vermont teaching license, students choose Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Special Education, Art, Theatre Arts, or English as a Second Language. The initial licensure program is embedded within the M.Ed. allowing students to obtain both simultaneously, which often requires more than 36 credits.

Saint Michael’s College seniors in good standing who have taken the required undergraduate education courses, but were not able to fit in student teaching, may complete a ninth semester student teaching through Graduate Education to gain the teaching license.

See Graduate Catalog for program requirements.