Elementary Education, M.A.T. (Resident Teacher Program)
With this program, NLU partners with the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) to deliver the M.A.T. Elementary Education program in a model which integrates a ten-month teaching residency and 12 months of graduate level coursework.
Program participants spend one year working full-time in Chicago Public Schools classrooms with mentor teachers. While gaining classroom experience, participants take the coursework that allows them to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from NLU.
Graduates contract to work in an underperforming Chicago Public School for a minimum of four years.
Graduates will be eligible for the Illinois Initial Elementary (K–9) teaching certificate (Type 03). Visit Certifications and Endorsements at NLU for more details.
In addition to National College of Education Graduate Admissions Requirements, applicants must:
- Submit official scores from the Miller Analogies Test
- Pass the Test of Academic Proficiency (TAP)
- Complete General Education Requirements prior to admission
- Communication – 2 SH
- Literature – 2 SH
- Fine Arts – 2 SH
- Global/Multicultural – 2 SH
- History/Political Science – 2 SH
- Biological/Physical Science – 2 SH
- Math – 6 SH
This degree requires:
Required Courses
MAT Core - 9 SH
| EPS511 | Human Learning and Development in Instructional Contexts | |
| ESR514 | Research in Action: Becoming Practitioner Researchers | |
| FND510 | Social Justice Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of American Education | |
Program Courses - 24 SH
| ELE587 | Resident Teacher Practicum Elementary Education | |
| SPE500 | Introduction to Exceptional Children and Adolescents/Special Education | |
| RLL538 | Literacy Methods I: K-4 | |
| RLL539 | Literacy Methods II: Grades 5-9 | |
| CIC595 | Selected Topics in Curriculum and Instruction | |
| MHE480B | Methods for Teaching Elementary Mathematics | |
| ELE545 | Methods for Teaching Arts Education | |
| ELE547 | Methods for Teaching Health and Physical Education | |
| ELE597 | Resident Student Teaching Elementary Education | |
Notes: Students must take CIC 595 twice for a total of 4 SH and select Integrated Methods I & II. For MHE 480B, students may not register until these prerequisites are met: six semester hours of mathematics, college algebra level and above.
Middle Level OR Special Education Courses - 9 SH
| MLE500 | Middle School: An Overview | |
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| MLE502 | Middle Level Curriculum | |
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| RLR503 | Teaching Content Area and Advanced Reading | |
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| SPE501 | Educational and Diagnostic Assessment of Exceptional Children and Adolescents | |
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| SPE506 | Frameworks and Perspectives in Special Education | |
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| SPE527 | Individualized Curriculum and Instruction | |