Degree Programs

Courses are structured to emphasize best practices in teaching and learning and to immerse students in classroom experiences that challenge them to reexamine the secondary school learning environment. Each course meets for 30 hours of classroom time; an additional 20 hours of laboratory time are devoted to experiences in research and teaching that build critical competencies. The two strands of each course create a critical dialectic: the laboratory component connects to a complementary component in a parallel course. For example, a MAT student who is taking Math 514 may be tutoring a student in a local high school and, simultaneously, taking ED 514, a course that requires him or her to consider current research related to issues in adolescent learning. All courses are paired in this way, connecting classroom time with laboratory time in order to model the best teaching practices.

Courses and field experiences may be completed on one of two campuses, either on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, or else at the MAT Program's satellite location on site at one of our partner schools in New York City.