The Master of Education in Elementary Education (M.Ed.) develops professional educators who are reflective practitioners dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and school renewal. The program is based on a standards-driven, field-based, and inquiry-oriented curriculum that employs cutting-edge educational technology to integrate content and pedagogy. Employing an electronic portfolio-based assessment system, university faculty and mentor teachers guide the candidate's progress in achieving professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Hawaii Pacific University's M.Ed. Program in Elementary Education prepares candidates to become competent, caring, and professional educators through classroom discussions and clinical practice experiences. Teacher candidates learn in small classes and enjoy individual attention by university faculty and mentor teachers.<br>The program prepares individuals for licensure in grades K-6. Graduate students will complete 450 hours of clinical practice in one semester. Placement at a school is determined by various factors: educational philosophy, employment of the teacher candidate at the school, proximity of the teacher candidate's residency at the school, convenience to the teacher candidate's outside employment, etc. Every effort is made to make the clinical practice meaningful, relevant and challenging to our students.<br>Teacher candidates complete ten core seminar courses in elementary education and curriculum and two capstone clinical practice courses, for a total of 36 credit hours.