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    90% hiring rate post graduation. Bard MAT graduates get teaching jobs and stay in education.

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The Bard MAT curriculum leads to a master of arts in teaching degree and New York State Secondary Teacher Certification (grades 7-12) in one of five subject areas (Biology, History/ Social Studies, Literature/ English, Mathematics, and Spanish). The Program integrates graduate study in the subject area with graduate coursework in education
and extensive teaching apprenticeships in area partner schools.
Course Work

Course Work

Bard MAT gives equal time to developing your subject area expertise as well as your knowledge of adolescent literacies, curriculum planning, school cultures, and innovative pedagogies. MAT students will study their subject matter and pedagogy, carry out an independent research project in their discipline, and put their learning into practice as an apprentice teacher. Education courses and descriptions are listed under the discipline coursework for each subject area. 

  • Biology
  • English/Literature
  • History
  • Mathematics
  • Spanish

Research Projects

All MAT students complete a substantive research Project in their academic discipline (Academic Research Project). The project is presented at a group symposium during the closing weeks of the Program.

  • Sample Projects in Biology

    Sample Projects in Biology


    • "Using Antibiotic Resistance to Teach High School Students about Public Health, Evolution, and Environmental Conservation"
    • "Learning About Yourself: How Human Anatomy Can Be Used to Better Educate Science Classrooms"
    • "Darwin to Doudna: Bringing the Future of Genetics into the Biology classroom"
    • "Implementation of Fermentation: A Lab Proposal Demonstrating How Fermentation can be better utilized in biology classrooms and across multiple New York State standards"
  • Sample Projects in History

    Sample Projects in History


    • "Nguyen  The Patriot: The Life and Legacy of Ho Chi Minh"
    • "Historiographical Perspectives on the Indian Army"
    • "Trench Foot, No-Man's Land, and Comradeship: The Strategy Behind What We Do and Don't Teach About WWI Trench Warfare"
    • "The Evolution of Joan Scott: From Marxist to a Post-Marxist Perspective"
    • "Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theatre: America's First Red Scare"
    • "A Feminist, A Suffragette and a Peace Maker Walk into a War"
    • "The Historiography of Trench Journalism and Troop Morale in World War I"
    • "The Legacy of Nkrumah from 1948 to 1966: Historiographical Transitions and Reinterpretations" 
  • Sample Projects in Literature

    Sample Projects in Literature


    • "Exploring Identity with The Outsiders: Literature as a Tool for Self-Reflection"
    • "Using Graphic Novels, Audiobooks, and Film to Modernize the Teaching of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet"
    • "Through a Child's Lens: Using Persepolis to Teach Iran's Islamic Revolution"
    • "Forget Me Not: Memory and Choice in The Giver"
    • "Patriarchy and Lineage in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart"
    • "Emerson's Masculine Language: Transcendentalism in the Modern Age"
    • "The Profit Shall be all your own! The Scarlet Letter and the Appropriation of Feminine Strength"
    • "Reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as a Case Study in Ethical Caring"
  • Sample Projects in Mathematics

    Sample Projects in Mathematics


    • “Analysis of Convergence Rates for the Helmholtz Equation on Singular Surfaces”
    • “Chomp on Cycles”
    • “Fibonacci Cycles Modulo p”
    • “Finding Gardens of Eden on a Torus: An Investigation of the Game of Life”
    • “Games Mathematicians Play”
    • “Generalizing First-Order Voronoi Nets and Extending to all Possible Configurations of Seven Sites on the Convex Hull”
    • "An Exploration of Conic Sections and Their Equations"
    • "Analyzing Similarity from the Perspective of L1 Metric"
    • “Optimizing the Travel Paths of Robots along Planar Graphs”
    • “Real Compact Topological Spaces” 
    • "Congruence Under the Manhattan Metric"
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Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Phone: 845-758-7145
Fax: 845-758-7149
Email: [email protected]
 
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