Admission Requirements
Applicants must have successfully completed the DeLeT credential program to apply to the MAT.
Preliminary Consultation with an Admissions Counselor
As part of the application process to DeLeT, we require you to speak with one of our admissions associates.
The Application
Please submit all elements of the application by the application deadline.
Short Essays
In this program, you will engage in deep inquiry about your own teaching practice in collaboration with your cohort. The admissions committee is looking for evidence of your reflective capacity and readiness to explore questions about teaching and learning. Please answer each of the following questions in a separate short essay (approximately 2 pages each).
- Why are you interested in pursuing this degree at this point in your teaching career? What about the DeLeT MAT makes this a good fit for you?
- Reflect on how you want to grow as a teacher: What are some of your strengths as an educator? What are some of the things you find most challenging about teaching?
- Share a dilemma in your own teaching practice. What have you learned from wrestling with this dilemma? What do you still want to learn about it?
Resumé
Please include a resumé that focuses on your academic and professional accomplishments, awards, honors, publications, and any significant leadership positions in which you have served.
Letters of Recommendation
- One Supervisor Reference: You must have one reference from your current direct supervisor.
- One Collegial Reference: One additional reference from a professional colleague. (Can be supervisor or peer).
- Optional additional reference: While optional, you may choose to include an additional reference who can speak to your teaching skill, ability to work with colleagues, academic strengths, or Jewish community leadership.
Transcripts
Please request transcripts at least four weeks before the application deadline to allow time for them to be sent to HUC-JIR. Transcripts need to be received to schedule an interview. Please provide us with one copy of an official transcript from all the following:
- The college from which you graduated as well as any other colleges you attended. (This includes any school at which you took a college-level course for transfer credit.)
- Any graduate schools where you have been enrolled, as well as schools where you have taken graduate-level classes.
- Any “Year Abroad” programs or other foreign studies. (If grades from international programs are recorded on your college transcript you do not need to submit a separate transcript.)
Have your schools mail the transcripts directly to:
Office of Recruitment and Admissions
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
3101 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
mwaldron@huc.edu (if sent electronically)
International Applicants:
Year-by-year records from colleges and universities attended are required. The record must indicate the number of hours per week devoted to each course, grades received for each course, and degrees awarded, with dates the degrees were conferred. This information must be provided in English. If this information is not available in English, it is the applicant’s responsibility to have it professionally translated and certified before it is sent to HUC-JIR. If grades are not determined on a 4.0 scale system, please include guidelines in English from the school that explain the grading system.