Choose Your Journey
In our MAT program, you can choose the path that’s best for you and your career goals.
Teaching young children brings a unique set of challenges, and this program is designed to give you the skills you need to meet them. Early education specialists not only teach children in all subject areas, they lay the foundation for essential life skills – emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, and cognitive development. You can be the key that unlocks a child’s door to life-long learning.
Elementary teachers must be versatile, covering a wide range of subjects, while applying fundamental skills to develop emotional intelligence, child development, and cognition. This program provides a comprehensive overview of the core disciplines you’ll be responsible for teaching daily in an inclusive setting to engage all learners.
By specializing in a specific subject area, you will be able to teach that subject in schools all the way from preschool through grade 12. When enrolling in this program, you will need to select one of the following subject areas to specialize in:
Endless Possibilities
For additional credits, you can leave Montclair with an additional teaching certification.
For 12-credits, the Teacher of Students with Disabilities (TSD) certification qualifies educators to teach and support students with diverse learning needs across preschool through grade 12. It typically requires completing specialized coursework in inclusive education, individualized instruction, and behavior support strategies, often as an endorsement to an existing teaching license.
This 12-credit program prepares teachers to work with P-12 English Language Learners and their families using strategies that support bilingualism, biliteracy and the learning of grade-level content across the curriculum.
The Bilingual Bicultural Education Endorsement program is available online and, in select circumstances, at off-site locations in the surrounding region. Courses for our traditional program are offered fully online; courses for off-site program cohorts are offered in a combined online and in-person hybrid format. All courses are held during late afternoon and evening hours to meet the needs of working students and individuals may complete the program in just one year.
Today’s classrooms are more diverse than ever – nearly 1 in 5 students in New Jersey’s public schools comes from a home where a language other than English is spoken. A secondary certification in English as a Second Language will give you the highly-desirable skills and tools necessary to provide support for your multi-lingual students and to ensure they have the opportunity to realize their potential.