Why Earn an MEd?
An online program that easily accommodates your active teaching career, Pacific’s Master of Education degree (MEd) empowers licensed educators through subject-area specialization and export faculty mentorship. Equipping teachers to take the next step in their career, the MEd provides not only foundational coursework centered on teaching theory and leadership, but offers unique endorsements and certificates that can help you make a bigger impact in the classroom. Helping young people become more confident through everything from cultural consciousness to dyslexia resources, MEd graduates have the opportunity not only to enhance their teaching prowess, but also to explore new ways of providing support for students across the K-12 landscape.
An advanced degree in education through Pacific’s School of Learning and Teaching gives you access to professional educators and classroom leaders across the Pacific Northwest excited to provide insight and mentorship. While an online master’s degree, the MEd at Pacific still contains many opportunities for you to meet with faculty, your peers and other licensed teachers in-person to help better gain skills you can take back to your classrooms. Through the School of Learning and Teaching, Pacific has created a network of compassionate and socially just teachers, curriculum designers and administrators who frequently collaborate to create spaces where young people can thrive.
What Can You Do with an MEd?
Teaching is a lifelong profession for many, and online master’s degrees like Pacific’s MEd are an investment in that career, taking your passion for education and amplifying it through advanced training and skill development. Accompanying that heightened expertise in the classroom is a marked increase in lifetime pay, a direct and tangible result of having an advanced degree. Teachers with an MEd have more opportunities to advance quickly and gain new responsibilities within their career, including roles outside of the traditional classroom space that can have a meaningful impact on student success.
Pacific’s MEd emphasizes specialization, which, in combination with the generalist training that makes up the other half of the degree, enables you to make a difference in more settings and work closely with more students. In finding your niche — whether that be encouraging gifted and talented students or working in special education classrooms — you can greatly increase the scope of your teaching career, opening up new avenues into everything from curriculum design to pedagogy, all with the goal of helping better serve young people, their families and their educators.
Expand your expertise with an add-on teacher endorsement, specialization or certificate.
Our teacher endorsement programs are offered in Forest Grove and Eugene. Each provides you with the opportunity to expand your career and better serve your students with expertise in certain subject areas.
“Teaching is a career that will remind you that you make a difference in the lives of kids, their families, and the communities they come from.”
— Linda Venenciano, Professor & BEd Program Coordinator
