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

  1. general requirements, common to all M.A.T. programs,
  2. content course requirements and retention requirements, specific to each licensure area and
  3. successful completion of benchmarks established for program accreditation compliance.
  4. 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

Required courses:
EDL 621Foundations of Multi-Cultural Education3
EDP 601Advanced Educational Psychology3
or EDP 603 Theories of Human Learning
EDP 607Educational Measurement and Evaluation3
EDP 656Education of Individuals with Exceptionalities3
EHS 649Action Research for Educators3
FSW 581Adolescent Development in Diverse Families: Ages 13-253
TCE 519ATeaching Internship- Adolescent12
TCE 521AClassroom Cultures, Community, and Climate3
TCE/EDL 648Data-Informed Decision Making in Education3
Choose one of these3
eLearning in K-12 Education
Diversity, Learning & Technology
Trends in Learning Design and Analytics
Take one--depending on program3
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 Hours42

Integrated Social Studies Education

Program Requirements

TCE 533Adolescent Social Studies Methods I3
TCE 534Adol Social Studies Methods II3
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 201Principles of Microeconomics3
ECO 202Principles of Macroeconomics3
HST 111
HST 112
Survey of American History to 1877
and Survey of American History: From 1877 to the Present
6
GEO 101Global Forces, Local Diversity3
GEO 121Earth's Physical Environment4
POL 241American Political System3
POL 271World Politics3
POL 221-4993
Select four advanced courses in History 200-599 112
Select one Philosophy course (CHOICE)3-4
Total Credit Hours58-60
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