The Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)

STEP offers both a rudimentary and auxiliary course. Both projects lead to instructor affirmation in the condition of California, and both oblige serious, directed practice at school destinations, and also scholarly course work that spotlights on bleeding edge, school-based exploration.

Program Requirements

Every MA competitor will work intently with a personnel guide to build up an individualized system of study that mirrors the understudy's specific hobbies. As understudies in this project are not some piece of an associate taking courses together, they must have the capacity to work autonomously, under a consultant's supervision, with a specific end goal to finish program prerequisites in light of current course offerings. It is both the guide's and the understudy's obligation to verify that every understudy effectively finishes a lucid project of study and research that advances the understudy's proficient objectives.

Understudies have the chance to create specializations around specific topics or territories (e.g., English, proficiency, arithmetic, science, history) contingent on their hobbies and their consultant's ranges of ability. These specializations are arranged independently with the staff counsel and are dependent upon course offerings and coordinated perusing/exploration opportunities. Understudies can take courses over the Graduate School of Education and the college on the loose. Notwithstanding coursework, understudies direct a last venture that will permit them to center inside and out on a specific zone of hobby.

College Requirements

Expert's Program Proposal

The Master's Program Proposal is a University-obliged archive wherein understudies arrangement, in meeting with their counselor and Program Director, their course of study. Understudies must rundown each course they will take in satisfaction of their program's degree necessities. All understudies must get approbation marks from their counselor and Program Director and present the structure to the MA Programs Officer by the predefined due date, before the first's end quarter of study. Understudies who have not presented the structure at that point will be put on hold. Understudies finish a starting arrangement in their first quarter; in light of the fact that most projects take into consideration some adaptability in picking courses, understudies present a modified system proposition to the MA Programs Officer by the predefined due date ahead of schedule in spring quarter.

2015-16 Due Dates:

Preparatory Program Proposal – Friday, November 13, 2015

Last Program Proposal – Friday, April 8, 2016

The MA Programs Officer appropriates the Program Proposal structure to every understudy toward the start of his or her first quarter. Understudies can acquire extra program proposition frames here or from the MA Programs Officer. It would be ideal if you take note of that your Director/Program may have an alternate due date than the one recorded previously.

Understudies must meet the greater part of the University, School and program necessities and take after all approaches recorded on the Program Proposal. Inability to satisfy any prerequisites will defer conferral of the Master of Arts degree and further course enlistment. The MA Programs Officer checks the Program Proposal against the understudy's transcript so the two records must match precisely. Any progressions from the introductory course of study arranged in the first quarter must be pondered the reexamined system propos it.