<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>All Master students in Teaching and Curriculum (with the only exception of those working towards their first initial teaching certification, who instead complete a Comprehensive Portfolio) need to complete a Master's Essay as the culminating assessment of their program (Px and S<wm>LC 11.4).
To alleviate this challenge for some groups of students, the TESOL Department offers additional requirements on both Teaching and Curriculum students to keep them well-entrenched as future teachers: a group A-MLAT preparation and a group I-English Language Proficiency Test on Reading and Writing. [See SLC, Section I.2 of the TESOL Teaching Schedule for details.] As these requirements will likely take additional time for some Master students taking both Master's level courses</wm> on Teaching and Curriculum (2 units), and possibly also some Certificate of Teaching students in initial certification programs