{"id":29006,"date":"2013-02-25T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=29006"},"modified":"2013-02-24T01:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T05:16:04","slug":"the-growth-of-mat-tesol-and-usc-rossier-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/25\/the-growth-of-mat-tesol-and-usc-rossier-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growth of MAT-TESOL and USC Rossier Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

If any JETs or JET alumni are thinking of doing a Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), this is definitely worth a read. \u00a0I also encourage any JETs interested in teaching to join the JETAA Educational Professionals LinkedIn group<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

THE GROWTH OF MAT-TESOL<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/i>This blog post was originally published at <\/i>USC Rossier Online<\/i><\/a> and written <\/i>by\u00a0Dr. Rob Filback\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Christian Chun. \u00a0Dr<\/i>. Filback is Associate Professor of Clinical Education and Co-Chair of the Global Executive Doctor of Education program. \u00a0He serves as a coordinator for the MAT-TESOL<\/a>. \u00a0Dr. Chun is Assistant Professor of Clinical Education for the MAT-TESOL program.<\/i><\/p>\n

Origins of the MAT TESOL<\/b><\/p>\n

Our\u00a0MAT-TESOL degree<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that launched in 2010 is the product of a\u00a0multi-year, collaborative redesign process. The MAT-TESOL program (Teaching\u00a0English to Speakers of Other Languages) boasts a rich heritage at USC and\u00a0has featured prominent scholars over the decades such as David Eskey, Fraida\u00a0Dubin, and Stephen Krashen. In 2008 we decided to build on this foundation\u00a0by redesigning the TESOL program in order to create a new, innovative and\u00a0forward-looking degree that could better prepare graduates for the new\u00a0challenges and new opportunities now facing English language teachers around\u00a0the world.<\/p>\n

We began by inviting an external review by a team of experts:\u00a0Donna Brinton, Maureen Andrade and Lia Kamhi-Stein. Then, using this team\u2019s\u00a0recommendations, the faculty worked together to overhaul the USC TESOL\u00a0program. The existing degrees were closed and one entirely new degree, the\u00a0MAT-TESOL, was created. This included designing all new courses focused on\u00a0current problems of practice\u00a0, expanding the role of clinical field experiences, restructuring the\u00a0capstone and practicum experiences to be more professionally relevant, and\u00a0integrating technology including offering the degree online through 2SC.<\/p>\n

About the Degree<\/b>
\nThe resulting MAT-TESOL degree directly addresses prevailing challenges\u00a0being faced by TESOL educators in classrooms around the world. The new\u00a0degree is also more dynamic and nimble, designed to give faculty the ability\u00a0to make ongoing changes and to develop new units and modules as new needs\u00a0are identified. The degree consists of four terms of coursework requiring\u00a0approximately 14-15 months to complete. The online degree and the on-campus\u00a0degree utilize the exact same curriculum, faculty, and requirements. The\u00a0target audience for the MAT-TESOL includes current or prospective teachers\u00a0who wish to enter or advance in the field of TESOL. Roughly a third of\u00a0program participants are pre-service or novice teachers, while the remaining\u00a0students have a range of teaching experiences that include teaching young\u00a0learners or K12 students, university students, and or adults. About half of\u00a0the students in the program are situated domestically in the U.S. and about\u00a0half complete the degree while residing in another country. The majority of participants who\u00a0complete the MAT-TESOL are U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

Growth of the Program
\n<\/b>Since the launch in 2010, the number of enrolled graduate students has\u00a0increased dramatically, from a 12-member on-campus cohort in the Fall 2010\u00a0to 39-member on-campus cohort for Fall 2012. The online\u00a0cohort students have increased as well in the last two years, bringing the\u00a0total number of both on-campus and online students in the Fall 2012\u00a0cohort group to 71 students! They have come from a variety of countries\u00a0including Spain, Italy, Japan, South Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, and of\u00a0course, the USA. In addition, the Trojan TESOL society has been reactivated\u00a0with numerous students planning activities and events for the\u00a0coming academic year. Several of our MAT-TESOL students have presented on\u00a0their work at professional conferences including the regional TESOL\u00a0conferences. Our graduates are currently teaching across the United States\u00a0and abroad in a variety of educational settings.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the MAT-TESOL program, request more information<\/a><\/strong> or check out the USC Rossier Online\u00a0TESOL page<\/a><\/strong>!<\/em><\/p>\n

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If any JETs or JET alumni are thinking of doing a Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), this is definitely worth a read. \u00a0I also encourage any JETs interested in teaching to join the JETAA Educational Professionals LinkedIn group: THE GROWTH OF MAT-TESOL This blog post was originally published at USC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,29,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-graduate-school","category-language-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29006"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29035,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions\/29035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}