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Advising & Professional Development

MAT students may seek guidance from both the Program Coordinator and the Graduate Academic Program Specialist in Childhood Education and Literacy Studies.

Advising

Orientation

Once admitted to the program, prospective students will receive a letter that includes an orientation date and location. The initial orientation meeting is mandatory and is held prior MAT students’ first semester in the program. During this meeting, general policies, procedures, and guidelines are discussed. In addition, MAT students sign their programs of study, which finalizes the course expectations for graduation.

Professional Development

Association	Website	Journals/Resources	Conference
American Educational Research Association	www.aera.net		Spring
Florida Reading Association	http://www.flreads.org/	Florida Reading Quarterly	Fall
International Reading Association	www.reading.org	Reading Research Quarterly Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy The Reading Teacher	Fall
National Council for Teachers of English	http://www.ncte.org/	Language Arts Read, Write, Think Research in the Teaching of English Voices from the Middle	Spring
National Science Teachers Association	http://www.nsta.org/	Science and Children	Spring
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics	http://www.nctm.org/	Teaching Children Mathematics	Spring
National Reading Conference	www.nrconline.org	Journal of Literacy Research	Winter
National Council for the Social Studies	http://www.socialstudies.org/	Social Studies and the Young Learner	Winter

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