Online Master of Arts in Teaching Programs
Our MAT programs prepare you to deliver quality lessons to diverse classrooms. We have been certifying teachers for over a century and have built partnerships with New Jersey schools committed to employing our graduates. Choose the route aligned with your experience and join a community with a reputation for building skilled educators.
Why choose a WP Online MAT program:
- Earn the credentials you need to be a certified teacher in the state of New Jersey at the elementary or secondary level.
- Our streamlined admission process and multiple start dates enable you to start as soon as you are ready.
- Accelerated, online 7-week courses empower you to finish in as few as 18 - 24 months, depending on your track of choice.
- Through coursework, field experiences, research, and professional development activities, candidates become skilled and reflective educators who are equipped to provide effective educational instruction to a diverse cultural population of students in urban and rural settings.
- Advance with a university that has certified effective educators for over a century. Enroll in one of our reputable programs and prepare to graduate with new knowledge in these elementary education learning outcome areas and secondary education learning outcome areas.
As a graduate of this online elementary education graduate program, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of learner development and diverse learning needs
- Plan differentiated instruction to address student learning needs
- Apply strategies to establish a positive learning environment
- Engage in culturally responsive educational practices with diverse learners
- Demonstrate knowledge of content, pedagogy, and resources for instruction in elementary classrooms
- Plan for research-based literacy instruction to support students’ development in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing text for different purposes
- Plan for research-based mathematics instruction to support students’ development in problem-solving, mathematical reasoning, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency
- Develop learning objectives and opportunities that align to learning standards
- Engage learners in inquiry-based learning and academic discourse
- Analyze and design learner assessments to support learning
- Develop success criteria based on learning objectives and engage learners in analyzing their development
- Use assessment data to inform instructional practices
- Reflect on and analyze teaching effectiveness
- Collaborate with families, colleagues, and the professional community
- Demonstrate professional ethics and dispositions
The College of Education at William Paterson University is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
As a graduate of this online secondary education graduate program, you will be able to:
- Use information on a learner’s strengths, interests, and needs gathered through research-based methods to design lessons that are appropriate to the learner’s different cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical development
- Establish high expectations for learners and demonstrate the ability to modify instruction and implement assistive tools and technology to address the specific learning differences and needs of all learners according to the New Jersey Student Learning Standards
- Analyze, reflect upon, and facilitate with supporting research a healthy, safe, organized, and productive learning environment that communicates and promotes respect for each learner; reinforces classroom and school expectation, including HIB policies; is responsive and inclusive of diverse cultural backgrounds and perspectives; teaches learners how to use technology in appropriate, safe, and effective ways; and provides opportunities for self-directed learning
- Design learning objectives, success criteria, and common learning opportunities in alignment with NJSLS and CCR standards that demonstrate accurate knowledge in major concepts, use of academic language, and tools of inquiry of the discipline
- Facilitate learner knowledge of academic content, critical-thinking, and inquiry of the discipline by designing learning experiences that stimulate prior knowledge, link new concepts to familiar ideas and experiences, and make connections to the real world
- Design instructional plans to develop a learner’s communication skills and academic language (vocabulary, syntax, and discourse) of the discipline
- Design assessments of mid-to-high level of cognitive demand that provide evidence of learner understanding of learning objectives
- Use technologies to analyze results from summative and/or formative assessments to evaluate the understanding, progress, and performance of the class as a whole as well as individual learners
- Design and communicate clear success criteria in accomplishing the learning objectives and engage learners to review and analyze their progress
- Design plans that use a variety of effectively sequenced, research-based instruction at an appropriate pace to support learning
- Differentiate facilitation strategies by process, product, or content to foster college and career readiness
- Use assessment data and evidence to reflect on instructional planning and teaching and modify teaching practice
- Analyze and interpret assessment evidence/data to draw conclusions on effectiveness and adapt instructional planning and teaching practices based on conclusions to improve learning
- Demonstrate support of the school mission, growth, and development as an educator and engage with educational professionals to contribute to a culture of high expectations where all students can learn
- Apply the major tenets of professional expectations (codes of ethics, relevant laws and policies, and professional standards) in professional decision-making and behavior
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