STEM Education Programs
San Diego State University's College of Education offers a variety of STEM education programs, including teaching credentials, master's and doctoral degrees and professional learning opportunities for in-service and aspiring teachers. The programs are designed to help educators cultivate our region's future STEM workforce.
Our Credential and Degree Programs:
Credential in middle/high school mathematics or science teaching
U.S. News & World Report ranks the education programs at San Diego State University among the best in California. We work closely with districts to "grow" excellent new teachers for the region. Each cohort of students is guided by faculty members who provide social and emotional support for students. Cohort members share what they learn with one another, creating additional learning opportunities and professional growth.
Master of arts in teaching: mathematics and science education
This one-year, 24-unit program is one of the only master's programs in the nation focused on K-12 mathematics and science teaching. Enhance your teaching in mathematics and/or science by working with SDSU’s award-winning faculty. Through coursework designed to connect directly to your K-12 classroom, you will explore students’ ideas in mathematics and science and investigate how those ideas can be leveraged to support powerful mathematics and science learning.
Doctorate in PK-12 school leadership with a science and mathematics focus
The Ed.D. concentration in PK-12 school leadership and a focus on science and mathematics seeks to advance the work of formal and informal STEM education throughout the San Diego region. The program is committed to developing reflective leaders and change agents capable of responding to the area’s demographic shifts and the increasingly complex science and mathematics needs of educational organizations serving this diverse region.
Professional Learning for Teachers and Prospective Teachers
The San Diego Mathematics Project is a regional site of the California Mathematics Project. Our site provides training, networking and leadership opportunities to support math teaching and learning throughout San Diego and Imperial Counties.
The CGI Professional Development Collaborative provides training, coaching and leadership support for Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) math. CGI is an approach to teaching mathematics that builds from children's natural sense-making and intuitive problem-solving strategies. CGI teachers use specific knowledge of their students' mathematical thinking as the basis for instructional decisions.
The SDSU Mathematics/Science Teacher Initiative (MSTI) is a collaboration between the College of Education and the College of Sciences to support future math and science teachers with scholarships and local classroom experiences.
