Master of Science in Education in Teaching English Online

Prepare to become a more effective English teacher when you begin this 100% online program. Expert faculty will guide you through advanced concepts in writing and reading pedagogies, research methodologies and English content.

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Program Overview

Level up your instruction with this MSEd. in Teaching English online program

Ideal for current middle and high school teachers, this MSEd. in Teaching English online program is designed to provide practical skills you can use in your classroom right away. From studying curriculum and instruction to English literature, you will expand your repertoire of teaching strategies with the guidance of Northwest’s highly knowledgeable faculty – many of whom have been secondary English teachers themselves. You can be confident your online master’s degree in teaching English program comes from a respected institution because Northwest is AAQEP accredited and ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s “Top Public Schools, Regional Universities Midwest” (2026).

Through 100% online coursework designed to fit your busy schedule, you will deepen your understanding of British and American texts as well as critical topics such as data literacy and assessment, multicultural education, action research and key issues in today’s classrooms. Our accelerated, seven-week courses are interconnected, so you can apply your elevated expertise from one class to the next.

Whether you’re interested in becoming a dual-credit teacher or stepping into a departmental leadership role, you will develop the knowledge you need to take your English instruction to the next level. This program focuses on professional growth rather than initial licensure. For state-specific licensure information, visit: nwmissouri.edu/academics/stateauthorization-teaching.htm.

Graduates of this online master’s in teaching English program will be able to:

  • Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and research within the field of English education
  • Articulate plans to employ innovative instructional strategies grounded in multicultural awareness, critical thinking, and transfer and active learning in the English classroom
  • Produce graduate-level writing for a variety of purposes and audiences, including action research in a classroom setting that seeks to advance the field of English education
  • Engage in reflective practice, scholarly inquiry, ethical research and writing practices
  • Analyze texts from multiple theoretical perspectives within various historical, social and aesthetic contexts
  • Enhance their English education teaching skills for the purpose of earning dual certification
Graduates of this online master’s in teaching English program will be able to:
  • Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and research within the field of English education
  • Articulate plans to employ innovative instructional strategies grounded in multicultural awareness, critical thinking, and transfer and active learning in the English classroom
  • Produce graduate-level writing for a variety of purposes and audiences, including action research in a classroom setting that seeks to advance the field of English education
  • Engage in reflective practice, scholarly inquiry, ethical research and writing practices
  • Analyze texts from multiple theoretical perspectives within various historical, social and aesthetic contexts
  • Enhance their English education teaching skills for the purpose of earning dual certification

What can you do with a master’s in teaching English?

  • English Language and Literature Teacher
  • Instructional Coordinator
What can you do with a master’s in teaching English?
  • English Language and Literature Teacher
  • Instructional Coordinator

Also available:

Northwest also offers an MSEd. in Curriculum & Instruction – General and many more online education programs.

Total Tuition $12,960*
Program Duration As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 30

Accreditation:

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Northwest Missouri State University is accredited by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) and is recognized by the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education™ (DESE) and the Higher Learning Commission.

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Tuition

Our online master’s in teaching English program is built for your budget

Our MSEd. in Teaching English online program offers affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition, which is the same for in-state and out-of-state students. All fees are included.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program*
MSEd. Teaching English $432 $1,296 $12,960

Important Refund Information

2nd day of class Last date for 100% refund for dropped course
4th day of class Last date for 75% refund for dropped course
6th day of class Last date for 50% refund for dropped course
8th day of class Last date for 25% refund for dropped course

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $12,960*
Per Credit Hour $432

Calendar

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Northwest online programs are delivered in an accelerated format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring multiple start dates each year.

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TermProgram Start DateApplication DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlinePayment DueLast Class Day
Spring 11/11/271/4/271/5/271/6/271/7/272/26/27
Spring 23/8/272/19/272/24/272/26/273/2/274/23/27

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Next Apply Date: 1/4/27
Next Class Start Date: 1/11/27
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Admissions

Review the admission requirements for this M.S. in Education English online program

At Northwest, we’ve streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. Please read the requirements for the online master’s degree in teaching English program, including what additional materials you need and where you should send them.

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To apply for this program, you must meet these requirements:

  1. An undergraduate degree in English education or a related field.
  2. GPA requirements:
    • A minimum overall grade point average of 3.0 on the undergraduate transcript
    • OR if undergraduate overall GPA is 2.74-2.99 then writing competency needs to be demonstrated**
    • OR if undergraduate overall GPA is 2.50-2.73 then writing competency needs to be demonstrated and admission would be considered conditional (see Conditional Admission to Graduate Study)**
  3. Valid teaching certificate OR two years prior teaching with a valid teaching certificate OR enrolled in an alternative certification program

**To demonstrate writing competency, an applicant can submit a writing sample (10 pages minimum) for evaluation by graduate faculty member(s). The writing sample is not designed to test proficiency in a specific subject. It is rather a test to evaluate the applicant’s abilities to critique, organize and write a concise argument.

If you are a non-Missouri student, you should determine whether this program fits the certification requirements for your state.

Official transcript(s) can be emailed to: [email protected]. To submit official documents by mail, send them to:

Graduate Office
Northwest Missouri State University
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468-6001

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Admission Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution
  • GPA of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale
  • Official transcripts from all institutions attended

Courses

Experienced educators teach this MSEd. in Teaching English program’s online courses

For the MSEd. in Teaching English online program, the curriculum is comprised of 10 courses (30 credit hours).

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Students will complete EDUC 61649 or EDUC 61653.

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course will prepare students to follow best practices in data literacy to: define a problem; locate literature that provides evidence of issues related to the problem; select key information about the problem that could be studied and where action could be taken; find, select and organize data about the key information; run qualitative or quantitative analyses; present findings to the professor; and reflect on how this experience and new skills could impact their professional lives. Data analyzed in this class must be anonymized. Results from this course are not generalizable and may not be published or disseminated for scholarly peer review. This classroom project activity is for ongoing quality improvement of teaching practices.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students who complete this course understand and demonstrate the capability to promote the success and well-being of each student by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary for equitable protocols for student support, equitable access in a least restrictive environment, responsive practices for culturally responsive teaching and leadership, and a supportive school culture that ensures each student and family is treated fairly.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to assist experienced teachers in the public schools to become more aware of issues in education which have an impact upon them. Issues will be analyzed in terms of the historical and philosophical bases that have created the climate leading to these problems. Issues will be addressed in terms that help teachers cope in the teaching situation.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course will provide a student with the tools necessary to stay current on trends and issues in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Special topics in curricular design, instructional strategies, assessment and professional development will be explored. Professional ethics as it relates to the role of the curriculum leader will be analyzed and applied.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers various topics in the teaching of writing. Possible topics include: misconceptions about writing, contemporary composition theory, genre approaches to composition, transfer of learning, basic writing, service-learning pedagogy, writing assessment, writing across the curriculum, and linguistic diversity in the classroom. Specific subject matter will change each semester. Students may take this course multiple times with a change in topic.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An in-depth exploration of adolescent literacy with an emphasis on implications for instruction and learning environments. Students will explore how literacy theory both reflects and informs pedagogical practice as a method for planning, reflection, assessment, and intervention.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores historical, theoretical, and practical issues in English Education at the middle school and secondary levels, including textual and interpretive authority, canon formation, educational standardization, cultural studies influences, and other relevant topics. Students will critically examine the development and rationale of English as a school subject, the politics of literacy, and evolving approaches to teaching reading and writing, using critical pedagogies as frameworks to analyze how community, identity, and cultural background shape teaching and learning.

It is recommended that both ENGL 10501 and ENGL 10623 be taken prior to ENGL 10698.

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course engages students in both theoretical and practical readings of action research in relation to teaching in public schools. Additionally, students will make connections between their theoretical understandings of research and their own emerging identities as practitioner researchers, who learn from their own teaching by studying their school contexts.

Subject to course availability

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of genres, figures, and/or issues from British literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Specific subject matter and emphasis of course will change each semester. Possible topics include Middle English Literature, which would include Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Margery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory; Renaissance Drama, examining the works of authors such as Christopher Marlowe, Elizabeth Cary, and Shakespeare; or intensive focus on the works of a specific writer such as the Pearl Poet, Edmund Spenser, or John Milton. Repeatable: Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of genres, figures, and/or issues from British literature of the past 300 years. Specific subject matter and emphasis will change each semester. Possible topics include Literature of the Romantic Movement, examining works by authors such as Emily Bronte, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron; The Victorian Age, featuring writers such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Rudyard Kipling; or Twentieth-Century British Fiction, including writers such as Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Anthony Burgess. Repeatable: Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An intensive study of World Literature or Multicultural Literature. Specific subject matter and emphasis of course will change each semester. Possible topics might include Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, with works by authors such as Hughes, Toomer, McKay, Hurston, and Bontemps; The Development of the Modern Novel, examining novels by authors such as Petronius, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Voltaire, Austen, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Morrison, and Achebe; or Anglophone Literature: Fiction of the Post-Colonial World, including works by Rushdie, Naipaul, Gordimer, Lessing, Coatzee, White, Atwood, Munro, and Achebe. Repeatable: Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An intensive study of topics in American Literature. Specific subject matter and emphasis will change each semester. Sample topics include American Romanticism, with such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, and Dickinson; The Small Town in American Literature, with works by Hawthorne, Twain, Anderson, Lewis, Gaines, Lee, King, Morrison, and Faulkner; American Modernism and the Long Poem, examining the long works of Whitman, Eliot, Williams, H.D. Stevens, Seamus Heaney, and Rita Dove. Repeatable: Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A seminar with intense concentration on a single literary figure or a group identified by historical, stylistic, or philosophic commonalities. Designed to build an area of expertise and provide experience of highly focused study. Specific subject matter and emphasis changes each semester. Sample topics include: Spencer and Milton; The Unmannerly Heroines of Jane Austen and Edith Wharton; Whitman, Stevens, and Ammons: American Visionary Poetry; and J.R.R. Tolkien. Course may be repeated multiple times with change of content.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A graduate seminar concentrating on a particular literary genre that changes each semester. Possible topics include Modern Irish Drama; Epics; Scripting the Self; The Development of Autobiography; and The American Comic Novel. Repeatable: Course may be repeated with change of content.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A seminar-style class focusing on given literary theory or a theoretical or thematic approach to specific literary texts. Specific content varies each semester; may be repeated with change in topic. Topics may include Shakespeare in Context; From Dialogism to Decreation: The Shift Towards Silence in the Modern Novel; and American Literary Religion and the Natural World.

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