Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Master's)

Walden's fully online M.S. in Education program centers on the strategies that lead to greater student and teacher achievement. Our program was developed by K-12 educators for K-12 educators. As a result, our faculty understand your day-to-day pressures and professional needs.

This specialization is based on standards set forth by the U.S. Department of Education, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the International Reading Association (IRA), and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). The alignment of curriculum, assessment, and instruction is a complex task but helps to meet this goal: All children can learn. Instituting standards in grades K-12 inherently levels the playing field, suggesting the same achievement goals for all students, regardless of socioeconomic conditions, ethnicity, or learning differences. Program content focuses on current thinking on how teachers can best align their curriculum with state and local content standards.