Master of Arts in Teaching: Elementary Education and Multiple Subject Credential

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program and Multiple Subject Credential program aim to develop reflective and transformative teachers capable of working collaboratively with children, youth, their families and communities for the sustainable well-being of educational, social and ecological systems. The mission of the Chapman MAT and credential programs are to prepare reflective teacher-researchers who use integrated, developmentally appropriate, and critical pedagogies, and are ready to collaborate within diverse educational communities in order to lead us towards a more economically, socially, environmentally and politically just world.