MGE-MAT-Handbook-2025-2026

Course of Study – M.A.T. Middle Grades Education

On Ramp Courses (4sh) EPS 511

Human Learning and Development in Instructional Contexts

2 2

FND 510

Social Justice Perspectives on the History & Philosophy of American Education

Winter Courses (3sh) MGE 501 Spring Courses (5sh) MGE 520

Introduction to Middle Grades Education: Young Adolescents in Context 1

3

Methods of Teaching Content Area Literacy in the Middle Grades

2 3

MGE 509

Integrated Curriculum in the Middle Grades

Summer Course (3sh) CIL 505

Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language

3

Fall Courses (6sh) MGE 503

Advocacy Practicum: Young Adolescents in Context 2

3

Candidates select one methods course of the following: MGE 510 Methods of Teaching Middle Grades Science

3

MGE 512 MGE 514 MGE 518

Methods of Teaching Middle Grades English/Language Arts Methods of Teaching Middle Grades Mathematics Methods of Teaching Middle Grades Social Studies

Winter Course (6sh) MGE 505

Teaching and Learning Practicum: Young Adolescents in Context 3 Introduction to and Methods of Teaching Students with Disabilities

3 3

SPE 500

Spring Course (6sh) MGE 590

Student Teaching: Young Adolescents in Context 4

6 Total hours for Licensure: 33

Candidates select one of the following electives: CIL500

Foundations of ESL and Bilingual Education

SPE 501 ESR 514 MGE 510 MGE 512 MGE 514 MGE 518

Educational and Diagnostic Assessment of Exceptional Children and Adolescents

3

Research in Action: Becoming Practitioner Researchers

Methods of Teaching Middle Grades Science

Methods of Teaching Middle Grades English/Language Arts Methods of Teaching Middle Grades Mathematics Methods of Teaching Middle Grades Social Studies

Total hours for MAT degree: 36

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