Selected Learning Outcomes​

  1. Students teach music in all grade levels and in a variety of classroom and ensemble settings through guided, progressive online and field-based experiences.

  2. Students apply analytical, historical, and culturally responsive skills and knowledge in curriculum development, differentiated planning, informal assessments, and formal evaluations.

  3. Students demonstrate skills and knowledge of directing, rehearsing, and performing vocally, as well as on all wind, string, and percussion instruments.

  4. Students utilize formative and summative assessment and evaluation strategies responding to each of their student's needs.

  5. Students will meet all the standards set forth by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), and the James L. and Dorothy H. Dewar College of Education and Human Services.

Selected Outcomes Assessments

  1. Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate content knowledge through passing the state-required content assessment (Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators, GACE).
  2. Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate content knowledge, skills in planning, assessment, instructional strategies, use of technology, differentiation, and reflection through the Capstone Portfolio Content Assessment.
  3. Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate skills in assessment, instructional strategies, use of technology, and differentiated instruction during observed teaching episodes evaluated by a university supervisor and classroom mentor teacher (COEHS Observation Instrument – Candidate Assessment on Performance Standards, CAPS).
  4. Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate their ability to positively impact P-12 learning through a teacher work sample (COEHS Impact on P-12 Student Learning Assessment).
  5. Students in the MAT Music Education program demonstrate appropriate teaching dispositions through self-assessment and university supervisor and mentor teacher disposition assessments (COEHS CAPS Dispositions and Self-Assessment of Dispositions Survey).

Go to the Graduate School website and select Our Programs, then select the MAT in Music Education Program. This program is offered online as a four-semester track.

Requirements for the Master of Arts in Teaching in Music Education Degree

Required Core Courses22
MUE 7100Professional Development Seminar I: Foundations3
MUE 7101Professional Development Seminar II: Clinical Practice and Capstone3
MUE 7640General Music Methods2
Select either Teacher Internship or Clinical Practice:6
MUE 7790Clinical Practice in Music Education6
MUE 7800Practicum in Music1
MUE 7610Choral Curriculum3
MUE 7370Vocal Methods1
MUE 7500Instrumental Methods3
MUE 7600Instrumental Music Curriculum3
MUE 7200Rehearsal Techniques3
Total Hours required for the Degree30