Fast Track M.A. in Teaching
Share your knowledge / Become a high school teacher
- Teach in your own classroom, full time for full pay, after only six months of study
- Complete the majority of your coursework through distance education
- Earn a Master of Arts in Teaching degree and an Iowa Teaching License
The Education Department of Maharishi University of Management now offers an alternative certification route for people in the workforce who have knowledge and experience of an academic field and would like to apply this knowledge to high school teaching. This program combines state of the art knowledge and skills of teaching with a Consciousness-Based approach found nowhere else.
Through this program you can get licensed to teach mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, general science, agriculture, music, foreign language, family and consumer science, or industrial technology — all high demand fields — as well as English, art, or business.
The Fast Track M.A. in Teaching begins in mid-January each year.
- Learn the science and art of teaching. Candidates learn through the science of teaching all the major factors known to affect learning and growth. They also have many opportunities to practice the art of teaching, through which they use their unique talents to promote student growth.
- Develop creativity and organizing power. According to extensive published research, regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, the core technology of Consciousness-Based education, enables individuals to grow in health, intelligence, organizational efficiency, and creative problem solving ability — all vital for teachers.
- Become a holistic educator. All learning involves three elements primarily: 1) the learner; 2) the process of learning; and 3) the knowledge being learned. Most teacher education programs focus on the second two of these. In this program you gain experience and knowledge of all three.
- Learn to teach in accord with the way the brain works. Candidates understand from neuroscience how the brain learns, how it develops, and what teachers can do to facilitate these processes.
- Employ the latest and most appropriate technology in the classroom. Candidates learn to use a variety of new and familiar technologies for the communication and presentation of knowledge.
- Practice teach in a field-based methods course. Before candidates are given responsibility for their own classroom, they log over 80 hours of supervised field experience in real classrooms, including half a day every day during an eight-week teaching methods course.