Art Education - Rhode Island College

Art Education from Rhode Island College is a Campus Master Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. Mission Statement The mission of the Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program in Art Education is to prepare individuals with a strong undergraduate background in art to become certified elementary and secondary art teachers . Successful completion of this program enables graduates to qualify for PK-12 art teacher certification from the Rhode Island Department of Education. The program emphasizes a commitment to the complementary relationships between artistic expression; academic knowledge, understanding, and inquiry; and art teaching. Ultimately, the broad mission of both this M.A.T. program and the M.A. in Art Education program is to further strengthen the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of individuals as art educators and to thereby further strengthen art education practices throughout Rhode Island and beyond our state?s borders. Learning Outcome Statements Students pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching in Art Education at Rhode Island College will: further strengthen their art knowledge and artmaking skills, building on their foundational art understandings and skills acquired in their undergraduate programs; expand and deepen their understanding of art education theory and curriculum development; enhance their abilities to research content for art instruction and issues related to art education; develop art curricula; and engage in scholarship related to art education; develop competency in their art teaching skills, emphasizing the recursive educational practices of planning, acting, and reflecting on instruction; and further increase their capacities to serve as art education advocates and leaders in the field of art education. View more details on Rhode Island College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.