Health Teacher (P-12), M.S.Ed.

Matriculation Requirements

Applicants must offer 18 credits in courses in the health sciences or equivalent courses in other fields.

Applicants must also offer (a) or (b) or (c):

• (a) New York State Initial Certification in teaching physical education or health for all grades;
• (b) courses in education that meet the New York State Education Department (NYSED) standards for the pedagogical core. These courses include study of the following: history of education and philosophy of education or principles of education or educational sociology; educational psychology or developmental psychology or psychology of adolescence or adolescent development; classroom management; teaching students with special needs and English language learners; six credits in literacy and language acquisition; curriculum development and methods of assessing student learning; uses of technology in the classroom; methods of teaching health for all grades; current NYSED requirement for field experience.
• (c) an undergraduate degree with an appropriate major or appropriate course work (including introduction to health, human physiology, health counseling, health appraisal or the physiology of health and disease, occupational health or first aid, evaluation or statistics, human sexuality, health and human ecology or environmental health, and drugs and society).

Applicants must have a minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.00. A minimum average of 3.00 in graduate courses is required to maintain matriculation.

International applicants for whom English is a second language are required to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a score of 550 on the paper-based test or 213 on the computer-based test or 79 on the internet-based test before being considered for admission.

Applicants who have not completed all the specific course requirements are given individual consideration and may be admitted with conditions, with the approval of the HNSC and SEED health teacher program coordinators.

General matriculation and admission requirements of Graduate Studies are in the section “Admission.”

Program Requirements (30 Credits)

A minimum of 30 credits is required for the degree.

Students must complete six to 18 credits in health sciences in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences.

Students must also complete 12 to 24 credits in courses in the School of Education. Students take different education courses and sequences of courses depending on their previous course work, teaching experience, and the certificates they hold.

Option A

Students with initial certification to teach health or physical education must take SEED 7512T and 7525T and six to 12 elective credits in Education from among the following:

• SEED 7502T,
• SEED 7315X,
• CBSE 7885T or SEED 7325X or SPCL 7900X,
• SPCL 7880X or 7902X,

or an education elective approved by the SEED program coordinator and 12 to 18 credits in HNSC or related subjects at the graduate level with permission of the HNSC and SEED health teacher program coordinators.

Option B

Students with initial certification to teach in an area other than health or physical education must take SEED 7512T and 7525T and three to nine additional credits in Education from among the following:

• SEED 7502T, 7315X,
• CBSE 7885T or SEED 7325X or SPCL 7900X,
• SPCL 7880X or 7902X,

and 12 credits in HNSC or related subjects at the graduate level with permission of the HNSC and SEED health teacher program coordinators.

Option C

Students who already have a master’s degree in health or an allied field but wish initial certification in teaching health must take:

• SEED 7500X or 7315X,
• CBSE 7885T or SEED 7325X or SPCL 7900X,
• SEED 7502T,
• CBSE or SEED 7503X,
• CBSE or SEED 7671X, and
• SEED 7512T, 7542T, 7543T and SEED 7525T.

Students must also take six credits in HNSC or related subjects or in education at the graduate level with permission of the HNSC and SEED health teacher program coordinators.

All students must take SEED 7525T, preferably in the final semester of study.

The program of study must be approved by the HNSC and SEED health teacher program coordinators.

Admissions Requirements

• Fall Application Deadline: July 15
• Spring Application Deadline: November 15

Supporting Documents for Matriculation

Submit the following documents to the Office of Graduate Admissions:

• Transcripts from all colleges and universities attended. Applicants who earned a bachelor’s degree outside the United States need to submit a Course-by-Course International Transcript Evaluation. See Graduate Admissions for more information.
• Two letters of recommendation.
• Résumé
• Photocopy of New York State or other state teaching certificate (if already certified).
• On a separate page, attach a brief biographical statement of 500 to 1,000 words describing your reasons for pursuing the specific graduate program to which you are applying and your future professional goals.

Interview with department.

This program accepts nondegree applicants.

Required Tests

• TOEFL (paper, computer, internet): 500, 213, 79

All students accepted to the School of Education are required to submit fingerprint verification before signing up for most education classes. Fingerprint verification is required for work in New York City Department of Education schools if you already have fingerprint records or not. Follow these instructions.

Refer to the instructions at Graduate Admissions.

Contact

Enrique Pouget, Associate Professor

4107 Ingersoll Hall
E: enrique.pouget@brooklyn.cuny.edu
P: 718.951.5000, ext. 2736

Or contact:

Office of Graduate Admissions

222 West Quad Center
2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210
E: grads@brooklyn.cuny.edu
P: 718.951.4536

Office Hours

Mondays–Fridays, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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