Secondary schools across the nation are seeking to improve students’ academic performance as well as to teach them safe, productive, and creative ways of dealing with conflict. This dual degree program prepares students to excel in that effort. It offers challenging course work, field experience, and the credentials to move to the forefront of the growing field of conflict resolution education. Students attain expertise that is valuable to education efforts in the United States and abroad. Theoretical and practical course work is brought together with intensive on-site teaching practice in Washington, D.C. area schools.

Future secondary-school teachers learn to infuse communication, negotiation, peacemaking, problem-solving, peer-mediation, and team-building skills into teaching, classroom management, and curriculum development. Courses and resources are drawn from International Peace and Conflict Resolution in the School of International Service and from the School of Education in the College of Arts and Sciences. This 57-credit, three-year program comprises 15 specific courses, a 150-hour internship, 500 hours of student teaching, and optional weekend conflict resolution skill-building workshops.

For more information about the School of Education and the dual degree program:
http://american.edu/cas/soe/ma_peace.html