Master of Education in Elementary Education – Teaching and Transforming Advanced and Gifted Education Online
Advance your teaching career with specialized knowledge of talent development. The accelerated coursework for this dynamic master's program emphasizes strategies for transforming gifted education and offers educators an opportunity to make an immediate, practical impact.
Program Overview
Positively influence learning with the advanced and gifted elementary education master’s program online
Teach, mentor, and lead in advanced and gifted education with the online Master of Education in Elementary Education – Teaching and Transforming Advanced and Gifted Education program. Instruction by respected faculty empowers you to nurture advanced learning, creativity, and talent development. Complete your course work 100% online while exploring emerging frameworks for gifted education and their practical implications.
This online M.Ed. in Advanced & Gifted Elementary Education program explores proven strategies for fostering the professional growth and learning of other educators. Enhance your knowledge of youth and adult mentoring, creative teaching and learning, responsive teaching, leadership in gifted education, and more.
As a student of this master’s in elementary education online program, you will learn how to:
- Teach, mentor, and lead for student and educator talent development
- Foster advanced learning, creativity, and flourishing for young people and educators
- Apply research and critical understandings of emerging frameworks and issues in advanced/gifted education
- Analyze and communicate complex information for various needs and groups of people
- Effect change at multiple levels
- Teach, mentor, and lead for student and educator talent development
- Foster advanced learning, creativity, and flourishing for young people and educators
- Apply research and critical understandings of emerging frameworks and issues in advanced/gifted education
- Analyze and communicate complex information for various needs and groups of people
- Effect change at multiple levels
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Tuition
Keep your budget intact with our affordable tuition
Tuition for the M.Ed. in Elementary Education – Teaching and Transforming Advanced and Gifted Education online program is affordable and paid by the course, so you can achieve your academic goals while remaining within your budget.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| M.Ed. in Elementary Education – Advanced and Gifted | $499 | $1,497 | $14,970* |
*Tuition and fees are subject to change by legislative or Board of Regents action; changes become effective on the date of enactment. For more information, please visit https://onestop.txst.edu/cost-payments/cost-attendance.html.
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Calendar
Create your own schedule by choosing from multiple start dates
The Texas State Master of Education in Elementary Education – Teaching and Transforming Advanced and Gifted Education is delivered in a convenient online learning format that offers maximum flexibility for working adults like you. Choose the start date that fits your goals.
| Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 1 2025 | 1/13/25 | 12/30/24 | 1/6/25 | 1/13/25 | 1/13/25 | 3/3/25 | 8 weeks |
| Spring 2 2025 | 3/4/25 | 2/18/25 | 2/25/25 | 3/4/25 | 3/4/25 | 5/7/25 | 8 weeks |
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Admissions
Applying to the online M.Ed. in Advanced & Gifted Elementary Education program is simple
Apply to the online advanced and gifted elementary education master’s degree program quickly and easily with our streamlined admission process. Review the admission requirements below and take the next step toward your professional goals.
To be eligible to earn your M.Ed. in Elementary Education – Teaching and Transforming Advanced and Gifted Education online from Texas State University, you must have the following:
- Completed online application
- Nonrefundable application fee of $55 ($90 for international*)
- Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university
- Copy of official transcripts from all institutions where course credit was granted
- Minimum 2.75 GPA overall or 2.75 GPA in your last 60 hours of undergraduate course work (plus any completed graduate courses)
- Approved English proficiency exam score:
- Applicants are required to submit an approved English proficiency exam score that meets the minimum program requirements below unless they have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a country on our exempt countries list.
- Official TOEFL iBT scores required with a 78 overall
- Official PTE scores required with a 52 overall
- Official IELTS (academic) scores required with a 6.5 overall and minimum individual module scores of 6.0
- Official Duolingo Scores required with a 110 overall
- Official TOEFL Essentials scores required with an 8.5 overall
- Applicants are required to submit an approved English proficiency exam score that meets the minimum program requirements below unless they have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a country on our exempt countries list.
- Resume/CV
- A statement of purpose that addresses your reasons for choosing the program, your area of study, your relevant experiences, your career goals, and the attributes that will make you successful in the program
You have the opportunity to upload copies of your official transcripts during the application process (not print-outs, grade reports, advising transcripts or transcripts stamped "unofficial"). You can accomplish this by ordering or requesting your official transcripts from your university registrar, opening the documents, and scanning them into one PDF file. Please follow the instructions below when uploading your documents:
- Redact your social security number every time it appears, but do not make additional alterations
- Include front pages and back pages as well as the transcript legend
- Combine multiple pages and/or multiple transcripts into one PDF
- Arrange all pages in the correct order
- Remove any encryption/password protections
Electronic transcripts can be sent to Texas State University graduate admissions at [email protected].
Official transcripts can be mailed to:
TXST One Stop
Texas State University – Graduate Admissions
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666
*Texas
State defines an international student as anyone who is in a non-immigrant visa
status, including H-1B visa holders. If you are not a U.S. citizen, permanent
resident, refugee, or asylee, you would be classified as an international
student and should complete the international application for admission.
Admission Requirements
- Minimum 2.75 GPA
- No GRE required
- Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university
Courses
Learn about the curriculum for the online elementary advanced and gifted education M.Ed.
To graduate from the M.Ed. in Elementary Education – Advanced and Gifted online degree program, you must complete a total of 30 credit hours, including 27 credit hours of core courses and three credit hours of electives.
This program is designed for certified elementary teachers seeking professional development in gifted and talented education. This program does not lead directly to licensure in any state. If interested, graduates of the program may sit for the Texas Examination of Educator Standards Gifted and Talented Supplemental Certificate. View more information about Texas supplemental certification
