MAT Program

The Center for Creative Teaching (CCT) at Bennington offers small classes, individualized faculty advising, and the opportunity for a self-directed, interdisciplinary education. The CCT offers two Master of Arts in Teaching programs: a two-year MAT for candidates who seek certification and a one-year MAT for teachers who do not seek certification. (The CCT also offers an accelerated BA/MAT program.)

Candidates who do not seek teacher certification and wish to pursue the MAT work closely with the program's directors to develop programs of study that use the resources of the College to better their practice as teachers. MAT students sometimes concentrate in a single discipline (mathematics, for example) and sometimes draw connections between two or three (e.g., biology and architecture). Students earn an MAT through full- or part-time study, completing a total of 32 credits on campus.

Candidates seeking certification as well as the MAT take the equivalent of two years of coursework (64 credits) through full- or part-time study. Full-time students spend most of the first year taking classes on campus, and most of the second student-teaching in local schools.

In their first year, candidates take a combination of required Teaching Seminars and elective coursework in the liberal arts. The elective courses are organized by the programs of study that candidates develop in collaboration with their faculty advisors.

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For more information about this program, please contact the Admissions Office at 800-833-6845 or admissions@bennington.edu.