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Multilingual Multicultural Program Pathways

Multilingual Multicultural Professional Practice Pathways

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Hoʻonui ka ike – Grow your Knowledge

  1. Become an educator leader

  2. Earn Your TESOL Certification

  3. Gain practical strategies

  4. Reclassify along the way

  5. Experience a place-based, cohesive set of coursework

  6. Contribute to research to improve multilingual/EL education

Multiple Pathways

With multiple pathways for students, summer courses can be applied to the graduate certificate, which can be applied to the master’s program!

Summer to G Cert to Masters

  • 3 Credits Separately or
    6 Credits Combined*
  • SLS 680U: Introduction to Multilingualism Multiculturalism
  • EDCS/SLS 644: Multilingual/ EL Pedagogy
  • Online Synchronous

* Courses satisfy six credit hours Sheltered Instruction SIQ TESOL and HQ TESOL Requirements.

HIDOE funding is available to cover the cost of courses. Apply for SIQ or HQ from the Institutions of Higher Education Scholarship Program.

Learn More about the Virtual Summer Institute

  • 15 Credits
  • Interdisciplinary program
  • Capstone Project
  • 1 year/hybrid

Students may be eligible to add a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Licensure Add-a-Field to their existing Hawaiʻi state teaching license upon the successful completion of the MMPP.

Learn More about the MMPP Graduate Certificate or the TESOL Licensure Add-A-Field 

  • 30 credits
  • Curriculum Studies or Second Language Studies
  • Plan A: Thesis or Plan B: Project
  • 2 year/hybrid

Learn more about the MEd CS: Multicultural Education or MA Second Language Studies

Sample Schedules

The sample schedules will show the sequence of courses you would be taking for both the Multilingual Multicultural Professional Practice (MMPP) graduate certificate/ TESOL Add-A-Field and the master’s degree.

Summer I (Online)

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
SLS 680U Foundations in Multilingualism Multiculturalism (3)
EDCS 644 Multilingual/EL Pedagogy (3)

Fall I (If not taken during Summer)

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
SLS 680U Foundations in Multilingualism Multiculturalism (3)
EDCS 644 Multilingual/EL Pedagogy (3)

Spring I

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 630 Cultural Diversity & Education (Elective 1)
EDCS 647 Classroom and School Literacy Assessment: Multilingualism (3)

Summer II

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 696 Graduate Certificate Capstone (3) EDCS 606 Introduction to Research in Curriculum & Teaching (3)

MMPP Graduate Certificate Awarded

Fall II (Online)

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 622G Curriculum Leadership: K–14 (3)
EDCS 632 Qualitative Research Methodology (3)

Spring II

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 667 Seminar in Curriculum (3)
Elective 2

Summer I (Online)

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
SLS 680U Foundations in Multilingualism Multiculturalism (3)
EDCS 644 Multilingual/EL Pedagogy (3)

Fall I

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
Elective 1 (3) EDCS 622G Curriculum Leadership: K–14 (3)

Spring I

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 647 Classroom and School Literacy Assessment: Multilingualism (3) EDCS 606 Introduction to Research in Curriculum & Teaching (3)

Summer II

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 696 Graduate Certificate Capstone (3)
(Required)

MMPP Graduate Certificate Awarded

Fall II (Online)

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
Elective 2
EDCS 632 Qualitative Research Methodology (3)

Spring II

MMPP Graduate Certificate, TESOL
 Additional Master’s Coursework
EDCS 667 Seminar in Curriculum (3)