Graduate Education

Instructional Technology Endorsement

The masters program with Instructional Technology focus is designed to help in-service teachers gain knowledge and skills needed to use technology to enhance student learning, and to provide leadership in schools and school systems to nurture and expand these abilities in others. Our current and former students hold leadership positions at both the district, school, and university levels.

The overall goal of the Georgetown College Master of Arts with Instructional Technology Focus is the better integration of technology into the personal and professional lives of graduates, leading to better integration of technology into the curricula of their schools and districts. This will be accomplished by meeting NCATE Standards (ISTE-TF) and the KERA Initiatives through the mastery of Kentucky’s Teacher Standards, in particular, Standard 6 for Implementation of Technology:

The teacher uses technology to support instruction; access and manipulate data; enhance professional growth and productivity; communicate and collaborate with colleagues, parents, and the community; and conduct research (EPSB, revised February 2008).

Throughout Georgetown’s graduate education programs, technology is viewed as an enabling tool by which Kentucky’s core content can be more efficiently and effectively mediated to students. This particular program will take graduate students well beyond the minimum guidelines for all teachers, in order to help establish them as leaders in the use and integration of technology to accomplish the broader goals of Kentucky’s education reform, and of the learned and professional societies which advise and govern educational programs.