Integrated Social Studies 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: | ||
| EDL 621 | Foundations of Multi-Cultural Education | 3 |
| EDP 601 | Advanced Educational Psychology | 3 |
| or EDP 603 | Theories of Human Learning | |
| 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 (Language Arts only) | ||
| Integrating Literacy Across the Content Areas (Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science) | ||
| Reading in the Secondary School (Foreign Language programs only) | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 42 | |
Integrated Social Studies Education
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| TCE 533 | Adolescent Social Studies Methods I | 3 |
| TCE 534 | Adol Social Studies Methods II | 3 |
| Content Course Requirements | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| What Does It Mean To Be Human? | ||
| Social Relations in the U.S. | ||
| Sociology in a Global Context | ||
| Select the following sequence: | 6 | |
| World History to 1500 and World History Since 1500 | ||
| ECO 201 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECO 202 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| HST 111 & HST 112 | Survey of American History to 1877 and Survey of American History: From 1877 to the Present | 6 |
| GEO 101 | Global Forces, Local Diversity | 3 |
| GEO 121 | Earth's Physical Environment | 4 |
| POL 241 | American Political System | 3 |
| POL 271 | World Politics | 3 |
| POL 221-499 | 3 | |
| Select four advanced courses in History 200-599 1 | 12 | |
| Select one Philosophy course (CHOICE) | 3-4 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 58-60 | |
- 1
One course must be a non-western history course.
Retention Requirements
Methods Checkpoint (for Admission to TCE 533 and TCE 534):
- Admission to appropriate adolescent social studies cohort
- Completion of or transcript credit for at least 33 credit hours of content courses in integrated social studies
- 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
Supervised Teaching Checkpoint (for Admission to TCE 519A):
- Admission to appropriate adolescent social studies cohort
- Completion of TCE 533 and Adolescent Field Block courses with GPA of at least 3.00
- Completion of or transfer credit for at least 47 credit hours of content courses in integrated social studies
- 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