Core Requirements

The required thirty-one hour curriculum:

MAT Course Rotation (Dover Campus)

Spring:                                      9 credits
ED519 Literacy Across the Content Areas
ED534 Learning Theory
ED506A Curriculum Building

Summer:                                   6 credits
ED506A Curriculum Building
ED534 Learning Theory

Fall:                                          9 credits
ED536 Instructional Models
ED516 The Diverse School
ED523 Literature Across the Curriculum

Spring or Fall:                            12 credits
ED522 Reflective Practitioner
ED526 Student Teaching

Upon satisfactory completion of the program and upon submitting evidence of having achieved a level of performance satisfactory to the Delaware State Department of Education, graduates receive the M.A.T. and initial certification in secondary education for grades 7-12. Because of the brevity of the MAT program, a grade of Incomplete will not be given in any of the courses. MAT degree candidates are expected to complete the work for each course in the semester in which it is taken for credit.

MAT New Castle Policies
Application for admission must be submitted to the New Castle site. The chair of the graduate education programs on the main campus reviews all applications and makes admission decisions. MAT candidates enrolled in the New Castle program are subject to all policies for admission and continued enrollment as those at the main campus.

1. MAT candidates are admitted only in the summer or fall semesters at the New Castle site.
2. The course format is compressed into 7 weeks (with the exception of the student teaching semester) and are delivered as a combination of online discussions and tutorials, and class meetings.
3. Because of the compressed time frame for course work, one absence from scheduled class meetings will result in the candidate being withdrawn from the course.
4. MAT candidates are expected to register for a Tk20 account in their first course. Contact the Department's database administrator at brannema(at)wesley.edu for instructions.

MAT New Castle Program of Study
Beginning in Fall 2009, this MAT course rotation will be offered. MAT (or M.Ed.) candidates can ONLY be admitted in summer or fall because of course sequencing requirements for the methods block (ED 534 and ED 506 MUST precede ED 536 and ED 519)

MAT Course Rotation (New Castle)

Summer:
Summer I ED516 Diversity
Summer II ED523 Literature Across the Curriculum

Fall:
Fall I ED534 Learning Theory
Fall II ED506 Curriculum Building

First offered in Fall 2010
*ED522 & 526 Student Teaching and Reflective
Practitioner *(Capstone, runs for 14 weeks)

Spring:
Spring I ED536 Seminar in Instructional Models
Spring II ED519 Literacy Across the Content Areas

Graduate Course of Study Certificates
As part of the recent reorganization of professional development under the “No Child Left Behind” legislation, the state of Delaware Department of Education now requires practicing teachers to participate in extended educational experiences. Once certified teachers have received a master’s degree, colleges can meet their needs with state-approved “graduate courses of study.” These are groups of courses of 6-18 credits with a common focus.  The education department has four graduate courses of study:

Graduate Course of Study in Literacy
Graduate Course of Study in Action Research
Graduate Course of Study in Standards-Based Teaching
Graduate Course of Study for Reading Specialist Certification

Graduate Course of Study in Literacy   16 credit Hours
ED505 Developing Strategic Readers
ED509 Teaching the Struggling Reader or Writer
ED514 Language and Linguistics
ED515 Methods in Process Writing
ED523 Literature Across The Curriculum
ED527 Portfolio Development

Graduate Course of Study in Action Research    12-15 credit hours
ED530 Analysis of Research Methodology and Design
ED540,550,560,570 Topics In English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, or Social Studies
ED535 Action Research
ED600 Thesis Credit

Upon completion of the action research project, teachers will write a professional quality article for submission for publications. The thesis credit class will function as a writing workshop focusing on collaboration, peer revising and editing. A teacher may elect to do 3 or 6 hours of thesis credit, depending on the complexity of the research design.

Graduate Courses of Study for Standards-Based Teaching  16 credit hours
ED506A Curriculum Building
ED519 Literacy Across the Curriculum
ED521 Analysis of Teaching
ED527 Portfolio Development
ED534 Learning Theory
ED536 Seminar on Instructional Models

Graduate Course of Study for Reading Specialist Certification 21 credit hours
ED505 Developing Strategic Readers
ED509 Teaching the Struggling Reader or Writer
ED512 Advanced Diagnosis and Remediation of Literacy Problems
ED513 Practicum in Literacy Teaching
ED514 Language and Linguistics
ED515 Methods in Process Writing
ED523 Literature across the Curriculum