M.S. Ed. Early Childhood Education

The master's degree program in early childhood education has two distinctive strands: field change and career change. Classes for both strands are conveniently scheduled in the evenings and summers.

Our Programs:

Empower diverse learners

• Prepare to work in a variety of early childhood settings with children of diverse abilities and backgrounds
• Design safe, healthy environments that promote children's positive social relationships and capacity for self-regulation
• Develop flexible strategies for fostering children's growing understanding and mastery of different symbol systems
• Make children's progress visible by observing, documenting and assessing their learning and your own practice

Foster rational, spirited inquiry

• Help children actively investigate the world around them to construct their own knowledge and acquire skills consistent with state learning standards
• Develop your own sense of initiative and a disposition towards curiosity and inquiry as a model for the children you teach
• Understand and evaluate research that impacts your practice

Address issues of poverty and social justice

• Foster a sense of caring community
• Implement anti-bias curriculum
• Advocate for children and their families
• Collaborate and communicate skillfully with co-workers, administratores, parents and community agencies
• Tackle the challenges of urban education

Help students and teachers acquire competencies to lead and serve in a technologically advanced global community

• Make technology serve your classroom needs
• Stay in touch with advisors,  professors and fellow students outside of class via online communications

Contact Information
Smita Guha, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
Sullivan Hall 428
Queens Campus
(718) 990-2454
guhas@stjohns.edu 

Graduate Admission Information
School of Education
Office of Graduate Admissions
Sullivan Hall SB 9
(718) 990-2304
graded@stjohns.edu

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