MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING (MAT)
PK-12 Physical Education
**New Accelerated Model allows candidates to complete coursework in one year, plus 16-week semester of student teaching! Students can select either the traditional model (2.5 years) or accelerated model when applying.**
Program Overview
The Master of Arts in Teaching: PK-12 Physical Education program is an initial licensure program designed to prepare qualified professionals for teaching in PK through Grade 12 school settings. Applicants can be expected to learn to teach Physical Education at all grade levels.
Program Objectives
Teaching candidates can be expected to:
- Apply principles, techniques, and procedures to encourage students in developing and accessing health-related fitness
- Understand human movement, motor skills, and their developmental sequence
- Organizes activities and techniques for developing motor skills
- Guide the dynamic interaction between individuals and within groups while they are engaged in activities for personal and social development
- Apply techniques, skills, strategies, basic rules, etiquette, and safety practices for individual and group sports, as well as lifelong sports, creative movement, dance, non-competitive activities, and cooperative activities
- Incorporate the historical, philosophical, and social contexts of physical education
- Align state standards to instruction and assessment of students
- Use concepts and research-based strategies for effective instruction in a physical education program
- Follow safety practices, principles of emergency first aid, and equipment maintenance procedures, and
- Recognize legal and ethical issues that may influence physical education programs.
Areas of Study
| Course Number | Title | Hours |
| Prerequisites to Professional Courses | ||
| EDUC-6045 | Introduction to Theories of Learning and Cognition | 3 |
| EDUC-6435 | Introduction to Education | 3 |
| Professional Courses: Students must be admitted to Teacher Candidacy to continue | ||
| EDSC-6230 | Literacy Instruction for Content Area Classrooms: Middle and Secondary | 3 |
| EDSC-6570 | Teaching Diverse Learners at the Secondary Level | 3 |
| EDUC-6040 | Introduction to Classroom Teaching and Technology for Learning | 3 |
| EDUC-6060 | Classroom Management and Assessment | 3 |
| EDUC-6290 | Characteristics and Instruction of Exceptional Learners | 3 |
| EDUC-6415 | Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Teachers | 3 |
| EDUC-6445 | Introduction to Research: Pre-Service Teachers | 3 |
| EDSC-6605 | Content and Methods for Teaching Physical Education at the PK-12 Levels | 3 |
| Student Teaching Internship Semester | ||
| EDUC-6985 | Student Teaching Seminar | 0 |
| Select one: | ||
| EDUC-6922 | Student Teaching: Secondary Education | 6 |
| EDUC-6925 | MAT Capstone* | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 33-36 |
* This course may only be taken with special approval of the Director of Field Experience and the Division Chair
Content Coursework Requirements for MAT - PK12 Physical Education Program Studies
-Grades of C or higher in college-level coursework (not remedial) will fulfill content coursework requirements.
-Content coursework must be completed at regionally accredited institution(s) of higher education and be documented on official transcript(s).
- 3 semester hours: Science foundation (anatomy or physiology)
- 3 semester hours: Science foundation (kinesiology)
- 3 semester hours: Health and Wellness (fitness, conditioning, exercise, health)
- 3-4 semester hours: Individual/Team Sports (content or methods. No more than 2 credits in any one sport or activity.)
- 5-6 semester hours: Additional semester hours from the required categories above or dance, creative movement, first-aid, safety, sports medicine, coaching, or physical education of special populations to reach 18 semester hour minimum.
Note
This is only an introduction of the program. You are responsible to review the Graduate Catalog for program details.
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