Requirements | 30 Credits To assist you in keeping track of the program requirements, you can download an Educational Development & Strategies Checklist. The checklist is in Adobe Acrobat Reader format. If you don't have the reader you can download a free one from the company's website.

AREA I: FOUNDATIONS OF ED | 6 credits required
ED 510 Psychological Foundations
ED 511 Philosophical Foundations
ED 512 Social Foundations
ED 513 Comparative Foundations
ED 514 Issues in Education (Previously: Historical Foundations)
ED 515 Cognition
ED 518 School Law (Previously numbered ED 578, cannot repeat for additional credit)

AREA II: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS | 6 credits required
ED 520 Using Assessment to Guide Instruction (previously titled Educational Assessment)
ED 521 Statistics in Education  
ED 522 Curriculum and Instruction (previously titled School Curriculum); Required for the EDS degree
ED 525 Educational Research 

AREA V: MAJOR COURSES PLS | 12 credits required
For Performance Learning Systems (PLS) courses only call the PLS officedirectly @ 1-866-757-2527 to register. Only 12 Performance LearningSystems credits total can be applied to the Wilkes EDS degree. Be sure to register for PLS courses offered for Wilkes University credit (indicated by a "W" on the PLS brochures).

Choose any 4 of the following:
ED 541 Designing Motivation for All Learners
ED 542 Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms
ED 543 Achieving Student Outcomes Through Cooperative Learning
ED 546 Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching
ED 547 Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century
ED 548 Purposeful Learning Through Multiple Intelligences
ED 549 Discovering the Power of Live-Event Learning
ED 550 Project TEACH, Teacher Effective and Classroom Handling
ED 551 PRIDE, Professional Refinements in Developing Effectiveness
ED 552 Teaching Through Learning Channels
ED 553 Brain-Based Ways We Think and Learn
ED 554 Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility
ED 555 Classroom Management: Orchestrating a Community of Learners
ED 558 Building Communication and Teamwork in the Classroom 
ED 558 Learning to Read: Beginning Reading Instruction
ED 558 Reading to Learn: Comprehension Instruction
ED 558 Differentiated Instruction for Today's Classroom

**Note: PLScourses completed for credit from another college or university must be approved for transfer to Wilkes in order to be used toward our EDS master's degree (a maximum of 6 credits total).

Elective Course Credits | 6 Required
You cannot use additional PLS courses beyond the 12 credits required for the major as elective courses for the Wilkes MS in Educational Development & Strategies degree program. Students can complete any Wilkes graduate ED course (other than PLS) to fulfill the elective credit requirement or transfer approved courses from another graduate college or university.

Note:A maximum of 6 creditstotal can be transferred to Wilkes. Transfercredits cannot be morethan six years old and an official transcriptmust be on file at Wilkesbefore they can be posted to your Wilkestranscript.