Teaching: Elementary Education (Multiple Subject Credential), M.A.

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 elementary school is the Multiple Subject Credential.

The Master of Arts in Teaching: Elementary Education allows the candidate to obtain both a Multiple Subject Credential and the master’s degree through an integrated program of coursework, fieldwork, and a demonstration of mastery. 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: Elementary Education (Multiple Subject Credential) curriculum: