Teaching - Elms College

Teaching from Elms College is a Campus Master Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. The college's education programs prepare students for Initial teacher licensure in accordance with the Regulations for Educator Licensure and Preparation Program Approval of the Massachusetts Department of Education. The Elms College master of arts in teaching (M.A.T.) program is built upon two premises. First, outstanding teachers have a strong liberal arts educational foundation, which integrates the ability to think critically and creatively with a deep and broad understanding of subject matter. Secondly, skillful teachers move comfortably between theory and practice, translating what they have learned into effective curriculum and instruction. The M.A.T. program is designed to attract students of high caliber with four years of liberal arts or sciences education . Upon successful completion of the theoretical and practical aspects of the M.A.T. program, the student will receive a master's degree as well as an Initial Massachusetts state license as an educator. Since Elms College is an approved member of the NASDTEC Interstate Contract, the license received is reciprocal with those of more than 40 states, islands, and territories. Program Goals The goals of the Elms College master's degrees in education programs are as follows: To attract intelligent and talented women and men into the teaching profession, and to facilitate their development into competent, committed teachers. To produce teachers who have breadth of knowledge in the liberal arts and additional depth of knowledge in the subjects they will teach. To enable students to translate understanding of subject matter and knowledge of pedagogy into stimulating curriculum in an interdisciplinary climate. To provide students with experiences which will enable them to develop their own critical and creative thinking skills and to teach these skills in their classrooms. To prepare students to understand developmental and cultural variations in children and to develop appropriate teaching strategies for children with different backgrounds, abilities, and learning styles. To enable students to experience teaching as a learning process, using results of self-assessment and research to create and modify curriculum. To enable students to use educational technology in the planning and implementation of instruction and to evaluate its effectiveness. A strong emphasis on multicultural education celebrates the fact that ours is a pluralistic society. Since the urban area surrounding Elms College supports an increasing variety of ethnic groups, the programs educate all who enroll to become particularly sensitive to the pedagogical issues of teaching in classrooms with a large number of students for whom English is a second language. We believe that an effective teacher must enter the school community with the ability to apply knowledge about the customs and learning styles of different ethnic groups. View more details on College of Our Lady of the Elms . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.