{"id":9341,"date":"2021-07-05T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=9341"},"modified":"2021-07-02T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:17:05","slug":"new-graduate-degree-offers-path-to-teacher-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2021\/07\/05\/new-graduate-degree-offers-path-to-teacher-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"New graduate degree offers path to teacher certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new master\u2019s degree beginning this fall at Missouri Western State University will address the region\u2019s teacher shortage. Students who successfully complete the Master of Arts in Teaching-Secondary (M.A.T.) will be certified to teach a secondary school subject in Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Master of Arts in Teaching-Secondary program is designed for college graduates with degrees in a secondary school curriculum area. It equips students to be effective teachers, professionally prepared to educate a diverse student population. Graduates can be certified to teach grades 9 through 12 in biology, business, chemistry, English, health, mathematics, social studies and speech and theatre, or grades K through 12 in art, music-instrumental, music-vocal, physical education and Spanish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The M.A.T. is a 38-credit hour program: 28 class credits (100% online), 9 student teaching credits and one additional field experience credit hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/education\/mat\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu\/education\/mat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:graduate@missouriwestern.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">graduate@missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or call the Graduate School at (816) 271-4394.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new master\u2019s degree beginning this fall at Missouri Western State University will address the region\u2019s teacher shortage. Students who successfully complete the Master of Arts in Teaching-Secondary (M.A.T.) will be certified to teach a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}