Scholarship Opportunities
Scholarships and fellowships available include The Carroll and Milton Petrie Fellowships for New York City Teachers, Math for America Fellowship, and others.
Meet Our Mentors
Celia Hetterich, a mentor teacher in the MAT Program at Bard since its inception, has taught 8th-grade English at Chatham Middle School in Chatham, New York, for four years.
Bard, A Place to Think - Master of Arts in Teaching
Improving Education
In pursuing the goal of making positive changes in the public schools, the faculty of the MAT Program has supplied leadership in developing and applying a variety of approaches that differ from conventional classroom practices.
The MAT Program's teaching internship provides an opportunity to question the tacit assumptions, so often made by teachers as well as students, and to construct, instead, a new educational perspective based upon experience.
Educating the best kinds of teachers must be accompanied by a corresponding effort to develop the capacity of high needs schools to recruit and retain high-quality teachers. Bard College's MAT Program has responded to this challenge, building an exemplary model of college/public school partnerships that emphasizes professional collaboration and increased school capacity for the advancement of student achievement.