Teaching P-12 Health and Physical Education, M.A.T.

Degree Offered: Available Online

Campbellsville University offers a Teaching P-12 Health and Physical Education Certification MAT program in both the traditional (39 hours) and Option 6 alternative certification (33 hours) program. It will be delivered by education and Arts and Science faculty in collaboration and partnership with area school district personnel. Candidates will acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be effective teachers. The outcome will be documented in several critical assessments, including a portfolio and variety of clinical experiences. Mentoring for alternative certification candidates is consistently and intentionally planned for the duration of the candidate’s employment on the temporary provisional certificate. Courses will be taught in an online, each designed in eight-week graduate terms.

The P-12 Health and Physical Education Certification MAT program consists of education and special teaching methods coursework, as well as an action research project proposal and a semester long student-teaching experience for traditional candidates. Content literacy program requirements for reading and writing (16 KAR 5:060) are addressed specifically in the ED 659 course and are required to be included in all instruction. The professor for ED 659 has a terminal degree in reading. Option 6 alternative route candidates will have a mentor while functioning in their own classroom setting.

CAP Document

CAP 6 is a mid-point check in the educator preparation program for graduate candidates and involves evaluation of cumulative GPA (3.0), disposition assessments, completion of at least 100 field experience hours and an application for student teaching for candidates in the traditional route, which includes a commitment to the Code of Ethics, and other EPSB and university based requirements (MAT Student Teaching Application).

CAP 7 is program exit. Candidates must have a 3.0 cumulative GPA, passed the PLT, passed student teaching and submitted the exit portfolio based on student teaching for traditional candidates, meeting all Kentucky Teacher Performance Standards. For students who are in the traditional MAT program, CAP 7 would be completed at the end of their student teaching placement with a grade of C or higher. For Option 6 candidates, full exit occurs.