Integrated English Language Arts Education- Master of Arts in Teaching
For information, contact:
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Teaching, Curriculum and Educational Inquiry
401 McGuffey Hall, 513-529-6443
www.MiamiOH.edu/tce
Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) programs combine graduate and undergraduate study and enables a student with a baccalaureate degree to earn teaching licensure and a master’s degree in approximately four or five semesters of full-time study, depending upon academic background, experience, and teaching field.
Program Requirements
Requirements consist of:
- general requirements, common to all M.A.T. programs,
- content course requirements and retention requirements, specific to each licensure area and
- successful completion of benchmarks established for program accreditation compliance.
- passing score on the OAE content test for the licensure area and passing score on the OAE pedagogy test.
A student who has satisfied all or most of the content course requirements can expect to complete an M.A.T. program in four semesters or in three semesters and one summer; others can expect that additional semesters will be necessary in proportion to the number of content courses that must be satisfied.
Admission
In addition to admission requirements previously listed for all master’s programs within the department, candidates must have a baccalaureate degree.
Cohort
We encourage anyone with a degree who wants to be a teacher to contact us about our MAT programs. When you are admitted to the program, you are automatically admitted to the cohort. A cohort is a group of students in a common teaching field, taking the same methods courses and student teaching in specific academic years.
A cohort is identified by its general subject area and an academic year; for example, integrated mathematics 2017-18, English language arts 2018-19, and chemistry education 2016-17 are separate cohorts. The cohort year indicates the academic year the student is scheduled for methods courses, and the following academic year when the student is scheduled for student teaching.
You should schedule a pre-application counseling appointment with the Department of Teaching, Curriculum and Educational Inquiry Graduate coordinator or advisor, 513-529-6443.
General Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required courses: | ||
| EDP 601 | Advanced Educational Psychology | 3 |
| or EDP 603 | Theories of Human Learning | |
| EDL 621 | Foundations of Multi-Cultural Education | 3 |
| EDP 607 | Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 3 |
| EDP 656 | Education of Individuals with Exceptionalities | 3 |
| EHS 649 | Action Research for Educators | 3 |
| FSW 581 | Adolescent Development in Diverse Families: Ages 13-25 | 3 |
| TCE 519A | Teaching Internship- Adolescent | 12 |
| TCE 521A | Classroom Cultures, Community, and Climate | 3 |
| TCE/EDL 648 | Data-Informed Decision Making in Education | 3 |
| Choose one of these | 3 | |
| eLearning in K-12 Education | ||
| Diversity, Learning & Technology | ||
| Trends in Learning Design and Analytics | ||
| Take one--depending on program | 3 | |
| Reading Instruction for Adolescents (English Language Arts only) | ||
| Integrating Literacy Across the Content Areas | ||
| Reading in the Secondary School (Foreign Language Programs only) | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 42 | |
Integrated English/Language Arts Education
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| TCE 523 | Literature and Other Media for Adolescents | 3 |
| TCE 527 | Adolescent Language Arts I (fall only) | 3 |
| TCE 528 | Adolescent Language Arts II (spring semester) | 3 |
| TCE 625 | Teaching Writing | 3 |
| Undergraduate Content Courses | ||
| ENG 304 | Backgrounds to Composition Theory and Research | 3 |
| JRN 101 | Journalism and American Life | 3 |
| or JRN 201 | Reporting and News Writing I | |
| LIN 301 | History of the English Language | 3 |
| LIN 302 | Structure of Modern English | 3 |
| STC 135 | Principles of Public Speaking | 3 |
| TCE 246A | Foundations of Language and Critical Literacy | 3 |
| Select two of the following: | 6 | |
| Rhetorical Strategies for Writers | ||
| Professional Communication & Digital Rhetoric | ||
| Advanced Composition | ||
| Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Fiction and Poetry | ||
| Writing for Educators | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| English Literature to 1660 | ||
| English Literature 1660-1900 | ||
| English Literature 1901 to Present | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| American Literature to 1900 | ||
| American Literature 1900 to the Present | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Shakespeare and Film | ||
| Shakespeare’s Principal Plays: Early Works | ||
| Shakespeare’s Principal Plays: Late Works | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Traditional Chinese Literature in English Translation | ||
| Modern Chinese Literature in English Translation | ||
| Greek and Roman Mythology | ||
| Introduction to European Literature | ||
| Love and Death in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature | ||
| Empire and Utopia in Russian Literature | ||
| From Marco Polo to Machiavelli | ||
| Masterpieces of French Culture in Translation | ||
| Topics in French Literature in Translation | ||
| Communism and Catastrophe in Modern Russian Literature | ||
| Select one of the following: (see advisor for other choices) | 3 | |
| African American Writing, 1746-1877 | ||
| African American Writing, 1878-1945 | ||
| African American Writing, 1946-Present | ||
| Ethnic American Literatures | ||
| Electives in ENG, JRN, STC, THE | 6 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 57 | |
Retention Requirements
Methods Checkpoint (for Admission to TCE 527 and TCE 528):
- Admission to appropriate adolescent language arts cohort
- Completion of or transcript credit for at least 21 credit hours of content courses in integrated language arts
- A GPA of at least 2.75 in all undergraduate content courses of your plan of study earned at Miami
- A GPA of at least 3.00 in all graduate content coursework of your plan of study earned at Miami
Supervised Teaching Checkpoint (for Admission to TCE 519A):
- Admission to appropriate adolescent language arts cohort
- Completion of Adolescent Field Block courses and TCE 528 with GPA of at least 3.00
- A GPA of at least 2.75 in all undergraduate content courses of your plan of study earned at Miami
- A GPA of at least 3.00 in all graduate content course-work of your plan of study earned at Miami
- Completion of the OAE content test