Multiple Subject Credential (MSTE)

Earning a Multiple Subject Teaching Preliminary Credential provides a firm foundation for your career as a K-8 public school teacher. Our teaching program is one of the most well-respected in the area, and our credentialed students are some of the most qualified educators to teach in K-8 schools in California.

The Multiple Subject Credential consists of 38 units of in-person coursework. Students start in the summer term and typically take 1 year (Summer, Fall, Janterm, Spring) to complete the program. 

Program Director

Jill Rathjen, M.Ed., jar2@stmarys-ca.edu

Student Learning Outcomes

• Design lessons and deliver instruction that is linguistically, culturally and developmentally appropriate to students. 
• Learn and develop effective methods for cultivating a caring, supportive, nurturing, and rigorous classroom community (within our teacher education classrooms and at school sites). 
• Use a variety of formative and summative assessments to meet the needs of different learners, including student self-assessment and self-reflection as partners in teaching and learning.
• Ensure that all students have full opportunities for academic success, without regard to ethnicity, race, gender, culture, social class, language or disability.
• Demonstrate professional practice growth in partnership with school sites, communities, families, and students. 
• Demonstrate that you have met all of the Teacher Performance Expectations set by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.