Catalog 2005-2006
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
Information found in this online edition of the 2005-06 Catalog is unofficial and for informational purposes only. The official document of record is the printed edition of the 2005-06 Catalog. For more information, please contact the Dean of the Graduate School.
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Master of Arts in Teaching and Oregon Standard Secondary Licensure
For middle and high school teachers who hold a Basic License, Lewis & Clark College offers a program leading to the Standard License and the M.A.T. degree. The course of study is planned in consultation with a faculty adviser. Students who have completed graduate education courses with essentially the same content as required courses may substitute education electives with the consent of their advisers.
Degree Requirements
A minimum of 36 semester hours, distributed as follows:
Professional Education Requirements
A minimum of 17 semester hours including the following:
ED 500 Educational Research, 2 semester hours
ED 501 Constructive Assessment in the Classroom, 2 semester hours
ED 502 Literacy: Print, Media, Technology, 3 semester hours
ED 504 Classroom Management for the Inclusive Classroom, 3 semester hours
ED 507 Teaching and Learning in Middle and Secondary Schools, 3 semester hours
ED 509 M.A.T. Project Seminar, 2 semester hours
Choose one course dealing with topics of diversity, school, and society.
ED 548 Classroom Assessment: Work Sample, 1 semester hour (may be taken in conjunction with ED 501)
Subject-Area Electives
A minimum of 15 semester hours including the following:
LA 501, SCI 501, MATH 501, or SS 501 (for students in these subject fields), 3 semester hours each. Additional electives from liberal arts disciplines. (The subject field may be one in which the student already holds a basic endorsement or a new field in which the candidate seeks an added endorsement.) Lewis & Clark College can recommend candidates for the Standard License in art, foreign languages, language arts, mathematics, music, reading, science (biology, chemistry, integrated science, or physics), and social studies. Middle school teachers are strongly encouraged to take ED 572 Restructuring for the Middle Grades: Theory and Practice and ED 573 Integrated Studies for the Middle and Secondary Grades.
Graduate Elective Requirement
A minimum of 4 semester hours Those who want to teach at the middle-level/high school grades must pass Praxis II tests in their specific subject area. Generally there are two or three tests in each subject-area endorsement in some combination of multiple choice and constructed-response formats.