Catalog 2007-2008
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
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Middle-Level/High School Authorizations
Lewis & Clark offers a full-time, 13- or 14-month program for beginning educators in middle and high school (grades 5-12) in English language arts, foreign language, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, integrated science, or social studies. A 46-semester-hour dual licensure M.A.T. program is offered in science and math. Specialty-area endorsements also may be offered in art and music. The Middle-Level/ High School Program prepares candidates for an Initial Teaching License to teach a specific subject area in grades 5-9 in elementary, middle, and junior high schools and grades 7-12 in middle-level and high schools.
The M.A.T. degree in middle and high school education includes a minimum of 40 semester hours with study in education, adolescent development and learning, subject-area coursework, practicum and supervised teaching, and the interdisciplinary graduate Core Program. The supervised teaching option enables beginning educators to meet the needs of adolescents in ways that extend adolescent learners' experiences and enhance beginning educators and adolescents' capacity to solve problems. This option focuses on disciplinary knowledge with an emphasis on research in theory and best practice, including creating democratic learning communities, designing educational activities that cultivate connections between learners and their communities, and incorporating a range of teaching and technological resources.
M.A.T. candidates begin coursework in mid-June of each year and continue through the following summer. The program includes a full-school-year of classroom experience with an outstanding mentor teacher in a local school. New full-time M.A.T. preservice students are required to attend orientation in early June. Candidates begin working with their mentors the week before the opening of their school in the fall (typically the last week of August) and continue until the end of the public school year.
Beginning the first summer, M.A.T. candidates take courses in professional education, subject fields, and the graduate Core Program and complete a practicum. During the fall semester, candidates examine subject matter and educational theory and research, as well as reflect on their professional identity, while spending increasing amounts of time in their classroom observing and tutoring students, assisting the mentor teacher, and planning and teaching some lessons. In the spring semester, candidates teach nearly full time in the classroom and continue professional seminars with College faculty and mentors. The second summer includes additional coursework in education, disciplinary knowledge, and the Core Program. Candidates may be eligible for licensure at the end of 12 months, leaving the second summer session for completion of master's degree requirements.
Licensure Requirements
First Summer
ED 550 Social, Historical, and Ethical Perspectives on Education, 2 semester hours
ED 552 Adolescent Development, Learning, and Exceptionality (includes practicum),3 semester hours
LA 531 Writing and the Writing Process, 2 semester hours
Two electives in subject area of 2-3 semester hours each, or an elective and a Core course
Fall Semester
ED 551 Literacy, Culture, and Learning, 3 semester hours
ED 553 Classroom Teaching and Learning I, 3 semester hours
(Subject Area) 579 Teaching (Your Subject Area) to Adolescents, 2-4 semester hours (courses typically listed as LA 579, SS 579, ART 579, MATH 579, SCI 579)
Spring Semester
ED 554 Classroom Teaching and Learning II (supervised teaching with weekly seminar), 8 semester hours
ED 563 Classroom Management and Inclusion, 2 semester hours
ED 564 Curriculum and Inquiry, 3 semester hours
Summer Session 1 or 2
M.A.T. Degree Requirements
A minimum of 40 semester hours including licensure. Requirements in addition to those listed above for licensure are distributed as follows:
ED 555 Experience and Meaning, 2 semester hours (offered Summer Session 2)
Subject-Area Electives
A minimum of 6 semester hours and three courses
Graduate Core Requirement
A minimum of 2 semester hours and one Core convocation