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MAT Multiple Subject Program

Students in the MAT Multiple Subject Program graduate with the skills and licensure to teach all grade levels and content areas within the elementary school curriculum.

The MAT Multiple Subject Program takes 14 months to complete, and runs annually from late June to the following July. Students who complete the program graduate with both a master's degree and teaching credential.
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MULTIPLE SUBJECT CURRICULUM
The multiple subject curriculum, including its fieldwork components, is designed around the MAT program’s Five Core Commitments: Teaching and Learning in the Content Areas; Equity; Understanding Learners and Learning; Learning from Practice; and Leadership.

Teaching and Learning in the Content Areas is particularly challenging for multiple subject candidates because of the need to develop pedagogical content knowledge across disciplines and grade levels. Recognizing this challenge, the MAT curriculum provides extended opportunities to develop discipline-specific pedagogical practices in several content areas, such as a sequence of two mathematics and science methods courses. Candidates learn how to provide Equitable ​instruction through courses focused on differentiating instruction for diverse learners, including, exceptional learners and English language learners, while simultaneously engaging in fieldwork experiences in which they  work collaboratively with mentor teachers to design and implement rigorous curriculum accessible to all students. Through both coursework and field based assignments, candidates broaden their theories of Learners and Learning, recognizing the social, cultural, developmental and contextual nature of learning and the unique resources learners bring to bear on their learning. The program helps candidates cultivate an inquiry stance to Learn from Practice through a 3-quarter course sequence focused on exploring and reflecting on dilemmas of practice arising in student teaching, developing researchable questions, and conducting a field-site inquiry project. Throughout the program, dispositions and practices associated with Leadership are fostered through an emphasis on professionalism, collaboration, innovation and political agency.  ​
Summer ONe (Session 1)
ED 230 (4) History and Culture of Schooling 
ED 374 (4) Child Development and Learning
ED 241 (2) Children’s Sensemaking in Science
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​Total (10 quarter units)
Summer one (Session 2) 
ED 347 (4) Culture, Diversity and Educational Equity
ED 357 (4) Foundational Reading
ED 364 (2) Instructional Design and Ed Tech
ED 323A (2) Science Methods


​Total (12 quarter units)
Fall Quarter
ED 202 (4) Outcomes of Schooling and Assessment
ED 301 (2) Directed Elementary Field Experience in Diverse Schools
ED 320 (2) Teaching Physical and Health Education in Elementary School (5 sessions)
ED 322A (4) Curriculum and Methods for Elementary School Mathematics
ED 323B (2) Curriculum Methods in Elementary Science (5 sessions)
ED 326 (4) Curriculum and Methods for Elementary School Reading
ED 362 (4) Curriculum and Methods for Elementary Language Arts and English Language Development


Total (22 quarter units)
winter quarter
ED 246 (4) Teaching Investigation: Identifying Dilemmas of Practice
ED 304 (8) Student Teaching in Elementary School Seminar
ED 322B (4) Curriculum and Methods for Elementary School Math
ED 325 (2) Teaching Visual and Performing Arts
ED 348A (2) Educational Equity and the Exceptional Learner


Total (20 quarter units)
spring quarter
​ED 247 (4) Teaching Investigation: Exploring the Dilemmas of Practice
ED 304 (12) Student Teaching Seminar 
ED 359 (4) Social Studies and Information Literacy

Total (20 quarter units)
summer Two
​ED 243 (2) The Policy Environment of Teaching
ED 248 (4) Understanding Teacher Agency

Total (6 quarter units)
View the MAT Multiple Subject Fall Program Handbook
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Interested in a Bilingual Pathway?
Learn more about the Multiple Subject Program's Bilingual Authorization Program (BAP), new to the UCI School of Education in 2021!

Multiple Subject Candidate Testimonials

Learn more about the Multiple Subject Program from recent Multiple Subject candidates!
Karina Baeza ’22
Evelyn Gomez Pulido ’22
Audrey Lee ’22
Lauren Severance ’22

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