Teaching: Secondary Education (Single Subject Credential), M.A.

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The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program aims to develop reflective and transformative teachers capable of working collaboratively with children, youth, their families and communities for the sustainable well-being of educational, social and ecological systems. The mission of the Chapman MAT program is to prepare reflective teacher-researchers who use integrated, developmentally appropriate, and critical pedagogies, and are ready to collaborate within diverse educational communities in order to lead us towards a more economically, socially, environmentally and politically just world.

In California, the appropriate credential to teach a specific subject in a departmentalized classroom at the middle school or high school level is the Single Subject Credential. The Master of Arts in Teaching: Secondary Education program allows the candidate to obtain both the Single Subject Credential and the master’s degree through an integrated program of coursework, fieldwork, and student research. Students will take the courses listed below.

In addition to the courses below, see the Teacher Education Programs page for admission requirements, California Commission on Teacher Education requirements for credentialing, graduate degree demonstration of mastery requirement, and graduate degree progression and completion requirements.

The following courses make up the M.A. in Teaching: Secondary Education (Single Subject Credential) curriculum:

credential courses

EDUC 504 - Second Language Acquisition, Literacy, and Learning for Secondary Students 3 credits
EDUC 513 - Practicum Single Subject 3 credits
EDUC 532 - Content Area Literacy 3 credits
EDUC 550 - Evaluating Teaching Performance Expectations 0 credit
EDUC 567 - Secondary Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Investigating and Designing Transformative Learning Environments 3 credits
EDUC 570 - Pedagogies for Social Change 3 credits
EDUC 571 - Educating Diverse Learners in Inclusive Classrooms 3 credits
EDUC 583 - Student Teaching: Single Subject 3-6 credits (taken as 3,3 or 6 credits) (6 credits required)
EDUC 589 - Secondary Teacher Inquiry, Professionalism, and Wellbeing 3 credits

one of the following content areas (3 credits)

math and science content area

EDUC 517 - Secondary Subject Matter Methods I: Math and Science 3 credits

social studies and language arts content area

EDUC 577 - Secondary Subject Matter Methods I: Social Studies and Language Arts 3 credits

total credits for the credential 30

additional requirements for the Master of Arts in Teaching (6 credits)

EDUC 695 - Special Topics in Teaching 3 credits
EDUC 696 - Master of Arts in Teaching Capstone Project 3 credits