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We have two courses for the Graduate school of Education at Gunma University. One is the course of Master of Education for two years. The other is the course of Master of Professional Development for Education for one year. Each course aims to produce more skillful and professional teachers.
School Education Course
Education and Study
We produce “Specialists” of school education. That is, we train our graduate students to be knowledgeable and skillful in the specific field as well as to practice good teaching by adjusting to real classroom situations.
Academic Staff
- Language and Social Sciences
- Natural and Information Sciences
- Arts and Music
- Life and Health Sciences
Special Needs Education Course
Education and Study
Our graduate students are trained to supervise school teachers as well as peer teachers in their schools for supporting individual children’s need. In order to do so, we teach them to have comprehensive knowledge and advanced skills in handicapped children education.
Nowadays handicapped children education is not only practiced in schools for handicapped children. It has extended to various kindergartens, elementary schools and junior high schools where non-handicapped children study. Special education needs are considered to be educational inclusion. Therefore, every school practices handicapped children education and cares for children’s special education needs. In order to meet their new school needs, we are producing experts to support these schools.
Academic Staff
Education and Study
We, in particular, focus on training graduate students to be skillful and professional experts in school education in order to meet the needs of Japanese society. Therefore, we aim to produce school teachers with advanced knowledge and teaching abilities to solve problems and issues within schools.
It is difficult for teachers to solve problems that arise in schools, even though they have many teaching experience. They need to have analytical perspectives to understand both the situation and children/students. Then they can construct a paradigm to solve the problem with others. We must emphasize that teachers should be capable to handle the problems, evaluate and reconsider them.
In this course, we train practitioners who will be school leaders with skillful teaching techniques along with new school teachers who will have the ability to satisfy new school demands.
A Master of Professional Development for Education is awarded when the requirements of the course are fulfilled.