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MAT Program in NYC: An Alternative Campus

Students bound for teaching assignments in New York City in the fall join the entire cohort of students for graduate studies on the Bard College campus for the first quarter. In September, all MAT Program students immerse themselves in the public schools for an initial one-month field experience. Students who enter the New York City schools at this time remain in the city, completing their fall quarter graduate courses on site in the public schools that partner with the MAT Program. This alternative campus realizes an ideal of embedding a teacher-education program in a public school, creating opportunities for interactions between public school students, graduate students, and mentor teachers that benefit the learning of all parties. MAT faculty office spaces within these schools and ongoing support from the MAT Program ensure a continuity of services, building a community within the schools where the winter and spring apprenticeship cycles take place. This is a unique opportunity to participate in an exemplary model of teacher education aimed at training the best kinds of teachers while contributing to school improvement.

For more information about our MAT Program in NYC, please call our Program office at (845) 758-7145.