Teaching Art, Grades K–12, Initial Certification

Overview

Art and education are places to wonder, question, and build new knowledge. This degree provides opportunities to enact teaching and art-making as creative and performative practices inspired by contemporary artists who serve as creative role models for investigating and responding to the concerns of our time.

Our courses connect theory and practice, focusing on a progressive social justice approach to teaching and learning in and through the arts. We provide teachers with tools to be persuasive advocates for the importance of the arts in schools and society, as well as to encourage the next generation of citizens who will transform society.

At the Teaching Art, Grades K–12, Initial Certification MA program from New York University, you will participate in two types of fieldwork: serving as a learning partner and then a student teacher, working with elementary and secondary students in schools and through our NYU Visionary Studio Saturday Workshop.

Careers

Course work in the initial certification degree is designed for students who wish to pursue graduate-level training and initial certification. Our students go on to teach in public, private, charter, and independent schools in the US as well as internationally. Many teach in museum education or not-for-profit and community-based organizations and well as serving other educational roles such as curriculum consultants and on curatorial projects. Some pursue further study in PhD or EdD programs.