Elementary-Level (Grades 1–6) Requirements
A minimum of 32 semester hours and final course grades of B- or better are required for completion of the M.A.T. degree. Graduate students pursuing Massachusetts Educator Licensure at the elementary level are required to participate in the summer semester.
Professional Teaching Knowledge (Pedagogy) Requirements
- EDC 338 Children Learning to Read
- EDC 548 Student Diversity and Classroom Teaching
- EDC 552 Perspectives on American Education
- EDC 554 Cognition and Instructional Design
- EDC 556s Teaching and Learning
- EDC 559 & 559s Clinical Internship in Teaching
Subject Matter Knowledge
All students seeking Massachusetts Educator Licensure must have an undergraduate major in the liberal arts and sciences. Upon entering the M.A.T. program, the student and adviser will review the student's undergraduate transcript for subject matter preparation in the following areas:
Literature
Must include American, British and world literature
History
- Must include: U.S. history, colonial to present, and/or American government, including the founding documents
- World history and European history, ancient to present
Natural Science
Must include one lab science
Mathematics
Must include two college-level math courses
Social Sciences
Must include the studies of economics and geography
Electives
- EDC 336 Seminar in American Education: John Dewey and His World
- EDC 342 Growing Up American: Adolescents and their Educational Institutions
- EDC 343 Multicultural Education
- EDC 350 Learning Disabilities
- EDC 325 The Teaching of Writing
- EDC 333 Information Technology and Learning
- EDC 305 The Teaching of Visual Art in the Classroom
- HST 390 Teaching History
- ENG 399 Teaching Literature
