Planning Your Program: Recommended Concentrations & Additional Endorsements
Recommended Concentrations for the MATC
Below are several examples of concentration options within the MATC program. This list is by no means exhaustive and will be added to/modified on a continuing basis. Students should meet with their advisor to discuss any of these options as well as other possibilities.
Educational Technology
One popular concentration consists of the 9 credits of CEP courses that lead to the Educational Technology Certificate:
CEP 810 Teaching for Understanding with Computers
CEP 811 Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
CEP 812 Applying Educational Technology To Problems Of Practice
Other combinations of the following courses may also work as Educational Technology concentrations within the MATC (additional credits in these courses may also fulfill elective requirements)
CEP 800 Learning in School and Other Settings
CEP 805 Learning Mathematics with Technology
CEP 806 Learning Science with Technology
CEP 810 Teaching for Understanding with Computers
CEP 811 Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
CEP 812 Applying Educational Technology To Problems Of Practice
CEP 813 Electronic Portfolios
CEP 815 Technology and Leadership
CEP 816 Technology, Teaching, and Learning Across the Curriculum
CEP 817 Learning Technology by Design
CEP 818 Creativity in Teaching and Learning
CEP 820 Teaching K12 Students Online
CEP 822 Approaches to Educational Research
CEP 882 The Nature and Design of Compelling Experiences
TE 831 Teaching School Subject Matter with Technology (may work also in subject-area concentrations)
Educational Psychology
CEP 800 Psychology of Learning in School & Other Settings
CEP 801 Psychological Development
CEP 802 Developing Positive Attitudes toward Learning
CEP 832 Educating Students with Challenging Behavior
CEP 866 Psychoeducational Interventions
CEP 882 Socio-Emotional Development of School-Age Youth
CEP 882 The Nature and Design of Compelling Experiences
CEP 882 Technology and Literacy for Students with Mild Disabilities
CEP 883 Psychology of Classroom Discipline
K-12 Educational Administration:
EAD 801 Leadership & Organizational Development
EAD 845 Teaching, Learning, & School Restructuring
EAD 850 Issues & Strategies in Multicultural Education
EAD 860 Concept of a Learning Society
EAD 861 Adult Learning
EAD 863 Training & Professional Development
EAD 864 Adult Career Development
EAD 866 Teaching in Postsecondary Education
EAD 867 Case Studies in Educational Leadership
EAD 876 Budgeting and Finance in Higher Education
EAD 882 Sharing Leadership in Schools
EAD 882 Urban School Leaders as Reflective Practitioners
Literacy & Language Instruction
TE 836 Awards & Classics of Children’s Literature
TE 843 Reading, Writing, and Reasoning in Secondary School Subjects
TE 846 Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
TE 847 Advanced Methods for Teaching Lang Arts
TE 848 Methods of Writing Instruction
TE 850 Critical Reading for Children and Adolescents
TE 853 Corrective Literacy
TE 854 Clinical Literacy
TE 891 (Various topics)
Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Teaching and Learning
TE 818 Curriculum in its Social Context (when not used as a core requirement)
TE 823 Learning Communities and Equity
TE 882 Special Topics (various)
TE 891 Special Topics (various)
Science & Mathematics Education
TE 855 Teaching School Mathematics
TE 861A Teaching Science for Understanding
TE 861B Inquiry, Nature of Science and Science Teaching
TE 861C Action Research in K-12 Science and Mathematics Classrooms
Note: Courses in SME (Science and Math Ed) may also be considered
Additional Endorsement Options
The Department of Teacher Education in conjunction with the Dept of Linguistics has been approved for a new ESL K-12 Additional Endorsement at the graduate level. Students can complete requirements for the K-12 ESL Additional Endorsement as part of the MATC.
Please see a sample ESL-MATC Program Plan for an understanding of how such a program might look, utilizing MATC core requirements along with those for the ESL K-12 Additional Endorsement.
Please contact Dr. Paul Kurf for additional information about the ESL K-12 Additional Endorsement