MAE Program
Trade travel time for learning time. Northern Michigan University understands your needs as a busy teacher. The MAE in Reading Specialist for K-12 includes online courses offered every semester, so you don't have to brave the weather or give up a gorgeous weekend outdoors. Courses are on your schedule from a university that specializes in educating teachers. Selected elective courses may be taken online or an campus as noted below
Learn from experienced, caring teachers
Our award-winning faculty members are highly qualified and know how to make distance learning meaningful and engaging. And they care about your progress as an individual.
Exceptional Value
Northern keeps school affordable: graduate tuition is the lowest of all public universities in Michigan. And all online students qualify for in-state tuition, regardless of their location.
Sample Program of Study
Selected electives may be taken online or on campus. Core program courses are all available online.
| MAE in Reading Specialist for K-12 Education | 36-37 Total Credits | |
| Fall 2008 | ED 500A Educational Research | 3 |
| ED 570 Foundations of Reading Instruction | 4 | |
| Winter 2009 | ED 575 Improving Reading Comprehension Research and its Practical Implications | 3 |
| ED 517 Recent Children's Literature | 2 | |
Elective
| 2 | |
| Summer 2009 | ED 511 Trends in the Teaching of Language Arts | 2 |
| Electives | 2-5 | |
| 2 | |
| 2 | |
| 2 | |
| 5 | |
| Fall 2009 | ED 518 Seminar in Elementary/Secondary Education: Reading | 3 |
| ED 504 Psychology of Education (online) or | 2 | |
| 3 | |
| Winter 2010 | ED 571 Diagnosis and Treatment of Reading Disabilities | 4 |
| ED 505 Measurement and Evaluation (online) or | 2 | |
| 3 | |
| Summer 2010 | ED 500B Seminar in Educational Research | 2 |
| Any elective credits remaining (as approved by your advisor) | 2-4 | |
| August 2010 | Take MTTC test (Required if adding Reading Specialist K-12 Endorsement to Michigan teaching certificate.) | |