Master of Arts in Teaching, (MAT)

Overview

Graduate Program
The Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program is designed for full-time students (including undergraduates who qualify for the accelerated B.A./M.A. program) seeking the initial teaching license at either the elementary, middle or secondary levels. It begins in spring/summer and extends through the following academic year. Students enter as part of a cohort team that is guided through the program by university and school mentors. They are placed with a teacher mentor in one of the Hiatt Center partner schools at the beginning of the academic year and take the equivalent of 10 courses, including the teaching practicum, determined by and based on their prior course work and planned teaching level. 

Graduate Requirements

Each middle- and secondary-level student takes an additional course corresponding to her or his teaching field and/or courses focused on teaching at the middle or secondary level.

• EDUC 311 - Teaching and Learning, Part I
• EDUC 361 - Human Development and Learning
• A Curriculum and Knowing summer institute in the arts, humanities, mathematics, physical and natural sciences or history/social sciences
• Ways of Knowing courses in the arts, humanities, history, mathematics or physical and natural sciences, depending on the student’s teaching field
• Practicum in elementary-, middle- or high-school teaching
• Seminar in elementary-, middle- or high-school teaching
• EDUC 360 - Literacy Development
• EDUC 308 - Literacy Across the Curriculum

Program Faculty

Thomas Del Prete, Ed.D.
Sarah Michaels, Ph.D.
Eric DeMeulenaere, Ph.D.

Professors of Practice

Holly Dolan, M.Ed.
Letina Jeranyama, Ph.D.
Maureen Reddy, Ed.D.
Heather Roberts, Ph.D.
Raphael Rogers, M.Ed.

Part time Faculty

John Ameer, Ed.D.
James McDermott, Ed.D.
Nathaniel C. Seale, M. Ed.

Adam Teacher Fellows

Kyle Pahigian, M.A.T.
Peter Weyler, M.F.A.

Program Coordinator

Marlene A. Shepard, M.A.

Courses

• EDUC 286 - Ways of Knowing in the Physical and Natural Sciences (Elementary, Middle/Secondary)
• EDUC 308 - Literacy Across the Curriculum
• EDUC 311 - Teaching and Learning, Part I
• EDUC 314 - Young Adult Literature
• EDUC 327 - Culture, Language and Education
• EDUC 345 - Best Practices: Science Education
• EDUC 359 - Teaching and Learning, Part II
• EDUC 360 - Literacy Development
• EDUC 361 - Human Development and Learning
• EDUC 362 - Teaching and Learning, Part III
• EDUC 367 - Clinical Experience I (Elementary)
•  EDUC 367 - Sec. 2 - Clinical Experience (Middle School) 
• EDUC 368 - Sec. 1 - Clinical Experience (Elementary) 
• EDUC 368 - Sec. 2 - Clinical Experience (Middle) 
• EDUC 368 - Clinical Experience II (Middle, Secondary)
• EDUC 378 - Practicum: Middle-School
• EDUC 379 - Practicum: Secondary Education
• EDUC 383 - Ways of Knowing in History (Elementary, Middle/Secondary)
• EDUC 384 - Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (Elementary, Middle/Secondary)
• EDUC 386 - Ways of Knowing in the Physical and Natural Sciences (Elementary, Middle/Secondary)
• EDUC 387 - Ways of Knowing in Mathematics (Elementary, Middle/Secondary)
• EDUC 388 - Practicum: Elementary Teaching/Learning
• EDUC 399 - Directed Readings — Graduate
• EDUC 399 - Sec. 2 - Directed Research — Graduate