Teaching, MA - Learning Outcomes

The Master of Arts in Teaching focuses on two things: deepening your knowledge of the content area(s) that you teach, and increasing your expertise in delivering that content to your students.

It also engages you in contemporary issues in education—and exposes you to the latest research into how learning happens and how to support it more effectively.

After completing the Master of Arts in Teaching degree, you will:

• Develop focused inquiry skills to investigate persistent educational challenges and analyze current policies and reform movements through the lens of professional teaching standards.
• Demonstrate critical research literacy by distinguishing between research methodologies and synthesizing scholarly literature to connect findings to pedagogical practice and student learning.
• Create and present a Capstone Project that develops a research-based course of action to address an educational challenge, including implementation planning and evaluation.
• Function as an informed educational reformer, demonstrating the progression from inquiry to research analysis to actionable solutions in your K-12 classroom and beyond.

After completing the Catholic Educator Emphasis, you will also:

• Have a deeper appreciation for the spirituality / philosophy of education in the Catholic tradition
• Be familiar with the context of Catholic education in the United States as a tradition of serving marginalized populations
• Be better equipped to guide students in engaging with faith formation tasks