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Master of Education in Health and Physical Education
The program goes beyond regular courses with team-taught comprehensive and non-compartmentalized integrated instructional units, rather than the traditional 3-credit courses. Integration of related content utilizing diverse delivery systems and assessments within a comprehensive content structure offers opportunities for students to practice higher orders of thinking and experience a greater variety of teaching and learning styles. Also, collapsing the traditionally taught content into larger units allows the flexibility required in order to efficiently and quickly respond to the changing needs of the schools. With the goal of educating better teachers, the graduate program offers student opportunities for integrated study and practice. It is the intent to offer an updated program that employs profession-specific technology for preparation of graduates to apply today’s knowledge in tomorrow’s practice. The aim is to cause changes in the physical education programs in the region toward the ultimate outcome of more healthful lifestyles among Georgia’s youth.
The graduate faculty has designed this new program with teachers/coaches in mind. Input was solicited from a number of public school health and physical education teachers and coaches as we restructured this program. Units meet only one night a week (students get 6 semester hours credit in one night) and are subject to change according to the needs of the students. The total semester hours for the program have been reduced from 36 to 33 and the program is conducted as a cohort.
If you need additional information on admission requirements or would like to apply for admission online to VSU, go to www.valdosta.edu/gradschool/ on the web. If you know of anyone who may be interested in this program, please direct them to this website. Should you have the need to speak to one of the graduate faculty concerning this program, please call the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at (229) 333-7161 or directly e-mail one of the faculty members.