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MACT: Master of Arts in Curriculum and Teaching Program
The MSU College of Education offers a master’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching on-campus in East Lansing; at Michigan regional sites in Birmingham and Grand Rapids; in summer-only programs in Traverse City, Michigan, and Plymouth, England; and in innovative online and hybrid (combination of online and face-to-face) formats. There are also “study abroad” summer course work opportunities in South Africa, Australia, and Ontario, Canada.
The Master of Arts in Curriculum and Teaching Program (MACT) is organized around three themes: (1)The primary focus of the MACT program is “critical inquiry,” for helping teachers understand the research and scholarship generated in our field, and for helping them address and critique important questions in policy, practice, and professional development. Central to this inquiry is improving and supporting all students’ learning and success in schools. (2) “Accomplished teaching” is based on scholarship and involves the examination and application of best practices. It develops and is refined over time through systematic and collaborative inquiry into one’s practice, and by pursuing shared goals and practices in a community of learning where teaching is made public and open to collegial dialogue, study, and improvement. (3) The MACT program seeks to promote teachers’ “professional leadership” in its many forms, through developing positive dispositions and skills in collaborative inquiry and shared decision making in their schools and communities, and as public citizens who can exercise their commitment to public education in a variety of ways.
This 30 credit program includes three required courses of inquiry into professional development and school culture, one required and one “selective course” of inquiry into curriculum and schooling, three “selective courses” in subject matter and/or thematic concentrations, two elective courses, and a final evaluation of the student’s professional portfolio and synthesis paper that are developed through the program.
The courses offered by the MA program in Educational Technology (especially CEP 810, 811, and 812 that constitute the program’s Educational Technology Certificate) are included among the options a student can pursue with advisor guidance and consent.
So if you’re a current MACT student you may wish to enroll in one of the educational technology classes offered locally at numerous school districts statewide. If you’re an Educational Technology Certificate Program student you may wish to consider applying for the MACT program. These are great options for both programs.
For deadlines and contact information please go to http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/mact
–Doug Campbell, MACT Program Director