The M.A.T. and M.Ed. in Elementary or in Secondary Education
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Announcement ATTENTION UNH SENIORS! Planning to apply to graduate school for the Elementary or Secondary Teacher Education Master's programs? Let's get together to review and answer questions regarding the application process, Internships, Early admission and deadlines. When: Tuesday, September 22nd at 1:00 PM Where: Morrill Hall, room 2 (Please email sri6@unh.edu if you have any questions)
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The professional education unit at the University of New Hampshire seek to prepare beginning teachers who demonstrate excellence in classroom practice and who will become educational leaders. The basic program to achieve these ends is the five-year program in which students begin preparation for teaching at the undergraduate level with a semester of field experience and professional course work in education. Students complete a baccalaureate degree outside of education and move into a fifth year of study and full-year internship which lead to either the M.Ed. or M.A.T. degree and licensure for teaching. (Students in the five-year program may combine their program for teacher licensure with a master’s program in the department of their major.)
Students in music, mathematics, and nursery school/kindergarten and physical education have the option of choosing a four-year undergraduate program for licensure.
Students who have already completed a baccalaureate degree may also enter the teacher preparation program at the graduate level. With no prior course work in education, this program will normally require two years to achieve licensure and either the M.Ed. or M.A.T. degree.
A special summer program, Live, Learn, and Teach, is available to graduate students who wish to begin teacher preparation.
Licensure requirements that must be met prior to or as part of the master’s degree program include completion of 4 credits or an equivalent in each of the following: 500/935, Exploring Teaching; 800, Educational Structure and Change; 801, Human Development and Learning: Educational Psychology; 803, Alternative Teaching Models; 805, Alternative Perspectives on the Nature of Education; 851A or B, Educating Exceptional Learners; 900A, 901A, Internship and Seminar/Teaching (6 credits each, must be taken as part of the program).
Elementary teacher licensure requirements include two additional courses: 806, Introduction to Reading Instruction in the Elementary Schools, or 907, Foundations of Reading Instruction; and a mathematics course: MATH 701, Exploring Mathematics I, or MATH 702, Exploring Mathematics II (4 credits each), or the equivalent.
Students pursuing teacher licensure in art, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, general science, physics, or social studies must also complete EDUC 807, Teaching Reading through the Content Areas (2 credits).
Credits earned in the seven-week Live, Learn, and Teach summer program may be applied toward the master’s degree. Live, Learn, and Teach satisfies the EDUC 500/935, Exploring Teaching requirement through 4 credits of EDUC 935, Seminar and Practicum in Teaching; 4 credits of 800A, Educational Structure and Change; and 4 credits of 803H, Experiential Curriculum.
Preparation for licensure in general special education is available to those who complete the M.A.T. or M.Ed. programs in either elementary or secondary education. This licensure allows recipients to serve as general special education teachers. In order to qualify for licensure in general special education, students must complete 22 credits (18 of which may be used toward the M.Ed. degree, or 6 toward the M.A.T. degree); a reading methods course; a mathematics methods course; 850, Introduction to Exceptionality; 851, Educating Exceptional Learners; 939-940, Assessment and Teaching of Children with Learning Difficulties; 900C, 901C, Internship and Seminar (3 credits each).
Dual licensure in early childhood education and elementary education is available to those who are enrolled in the M.Ed. in Elementary Education. This dual licensure allows recipients to serve as early childhood and/or elementary teachers. The early childhood/elementary education dual-certification program option is intended for students who have majored in family studies with an option in child studies or young child/nursery-kindergarten, or the equivalent. Dual licensure requires three graduate courses in early childhood education to be selected in consultation with an adviser from the early childhood program. The three early childhood courses will count as a graduate concentration in the M.Ed. elementary program. Students will complete a full-year internship at the K–3 level under the auspices of the teacher education program.