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An intensive 12-month program that prepares students for teacher certification in secondary classrooms.

Are you a recent or soon-to-be BA or BS in a field such as English, mathematics, history, or physics, but not necessarily planning on advanced study in the discipline? Are you currently employed in business or industry but thinking about changing careers? Do you enjoy working with middle school and high school-aged youth? Have you thought about teaching but also about doing graduate work?

Consider spending an intellectually engaging and challenging year acquiring a teaching certificate and a master of arts degree in education. As a student in the Secondary Master of Arts with Certification program at the University of Michigan, you will work closely with a cohort of fellow students and faculty as you develop the essential knowledge and skills that will transform you into an effective and caring teacher. As part of the dynamic process, you will participate in university and school-based experiences that will enable you to meet the challenges facing today's educators. You may have the opportunity to practice learning to teach in a setting with underserved populations, which may include urban schools, schools that serve high percentages of students living in communities with concentrated poverty, and/or schools with significant gaps in students’ performance. These placements are contingent upon a number of factors, including availability of mentor teachers who teach the subject(s) for which you are seeking certification endorsement.

The Secondary Master of Arts with Certification program is designed to help you make strong connections between theory and practice. Issues related to curriculum, instruction, assessment, classroom management, philosophy, psychology, history, and the social context of education are interwoven throughout the program, and connections are made between your day-to-day experiences in schools and assigned readings, discussions, projects, and assignments. School and classroom issues are discussed as they arise, and faculty members offer various perspectives for understanding these issues and their relation to current educational research and practice. Continuous attention is paid to studying the adult and youth cultures in a variety of schools throughout southeastern Michigan with an eye to understanding the various factors that shape teaching and learning.

The rich experiences of teaching interns in the Secondary Master of Arts with Certification program are based, in part, upon unique features of the program:

Cohorts: You will be a member of a 20-25 person Secondary Master of Arts with Certification cohort for the 12-month program. This will provide you with the opportunity to learn in the company of other interns who are working in similar contexts and develop a network of colleagues who bring multiple perspectives to the field of education. You will examine the tensions between the theories and practices learned in your courses and the realities of everyday life in classrooms in your regular interactions with faculty, experienced teachers, and cohort colleagues.

Fieldwork: Program-long involvement and experience in schools is central to the Secondary Master of Arts with Certification program and its curriculum. This emphasis will make it possible for you to delve deeply into issues related to public school education and to work closely with experienced school colleagues as you begin to build a teaching practice. Interns will work with students in a variety of schools and school districts throughout southeastern Michigan. These sites will afford you the opportunity to work with youth from a range of social, cultural, economic, and linguistic backgrounds.