资格，项目价值和录取标准

资格

Students enter the MAT program having completed a liberal arts degree. Students interested in teaching at the secondary level normally have fulfilled a major in their planned teaching field, 比如英语, 历史, 数学或生物. In addition to a successful faculty interview, students must pass the 马萨诸塞州教师执照考试 之前 the beginning of the program, in May, in order to retain eligibility.

Clark undergraduates may qualify for the MAT as one of the University’s accelerated degree programs (email 安德里亚·艾伦 为信息). All other applicants must submit a completed application by Jan. 15. Please note that the admissions process is competitive and that final admission decisions are made by education faculty.

Members of communities underrepresented in teaching are strongly encouraged to apply. 进一步了解我们的 教师多样性倡议.

项目价值和录取标准

At the Adam Institute we are dedicated to preparing outstanding beginning teachers that are highly qualified to serve students in urban schools. We have constructed our 教育学硕士 program carefully in order to meet this goal. We also have established a core set of attributes that we believe students need in order to prepare for and be successful in the program, and to teach urban students from low-income neighborhoods and diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. These attributes will guide our admissions process and assessment of students’ progress in the program.

We ask all applicants to reflect on and demonstrate their readiness for the program in terms of the first six of the seven areas below (see guidelines for the essay required as part of the application process). 我们将重点关注第七个方面, 作为最佳实践教师的表现,一旦你加入了这个项目.

1. 职业承诺: 优秀的教师把教学当作一种职业, as a calling to serve young people in their formation as whole persons, 专注于他们的智力, 学术, 社会发展. Strong applicants will reflect deeply on their reasons for entering teaching, and test and demonstrate their commitment by working in a youth program, 最好是为城市青年服务的.
2. 与年轻人相处的能力: Great teachers are empathetic toward and enthusiastic about working with young people. 他们尊重、信任、相信自己的学生. They understand their students’ developmental concerns, their hopes, and their yearnings. 他们很好地与年轻人沟通并吸引他们. 他们把自己的心和思想都投入到工作中. Strong applicants will demonstrate their commitment to teaching young people by working in some interactive role in a youth program, preferably in a setting with diverse children (for example, 在导师或导师计划中, 大哥/大姐程序, 夏令营, 或青少年康乐计划).
3. 主题理解: Great teachers believe in the subject matter they are teaching. 他们本身就是伟大的学习者, and show enthusiasm for and deep understanding of the subject matter. 同时, they recognize that their subject matter knowledge is not something simply to give to students, but must be integrated with a pedagogy that makes learning meaningful and accessible to all. Successful applicants will have excellent 学术 records, and demonstrate a commitment to the subject matter of their teaching.
4. 文化意识: Great teachers value the different cultural backgrounds of their students and use their cultural awareness in an effort to relate to and 支持 the students in learning. Successful applicants will be able to illustrate their commitment to cultural understanding, with reference to specific coursework and other experiences.
5. 批判性反思的能力: Great teachers think critically about the beliefs and assumptions they make about their students, and that inform their decision-making about what and how to teach. 城市的老师, 特别是, must be able to take a critical stance on their work and the institution of schooling, with a commitment to education as a fundamentally moral and democratic activity, 以公平价值为基础, 平等, 自由, 负责地参与公民生活. Strong applicants will address how they have developed this capacity.
6. 协作能力: Great teachers must be able to work openly and collaboratively to create a strong culture of learning and mutual 支持 for themselves as well as their students. Strong applicants will address their commitment to a program in which planning and the examination of teaching practice occur frequently in a collaborative process.
7. Performance as a best-practice teacher (by the end of the MAT program): Great teachers know their students as well as they know their subject matter. They combine their subject matter knowledge and understanding of their students to engage, 支持, 挑战所有学生进行有意义的学习. 他们促进学生作为思想家的发展, 读者, 作家, 问题解决者, 创造者, 知识生产者, 在很多方面都是积极而有能力的学习者. 他们有很高的期望, help each student believe in himself or herself as a learner, 鼓励高远的抱负. 他们帮助学生培养尊重, 支持, 以及他们学习社区中负责任的成员. 进入MAT项目后, students will become immersed in a highly demanding and reflective, but also highly 支持ed process of developing their teaching practice along these lines.