Graduate Faculty

MAT instructors include Brandeis University faculty and elementary and secondary classroom practitioners who teach in Boston and the surrounding area. We believe this combination offers our students a rich mix of experiences and viewpoints that helps students develop their own approach to teaching and learning. In MAT classes, you will study with experts in the field, including faculty who are nationally recognized for their contributions to education and master teachers who excel at teaching in specific content areas.

Current faculty assignments include:

Professor Sharon Feiman-Nemser, who holds the Mandel Chair in Jewish Education, was a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University before coming to Brandeis. In addition to teaching in the undergraduate program, Professor Feiman-Nemser teaches ED 263b (Reflective Teaching Seminar) and ED 266a (Teachers as Researchers). Sharon Feiman-Nemser is the author of books and articles on teacher learning, mentoring, and the induction of new teachers. A national leader in the field of teacher education, she received the Margaret Lindsey Award for Outstanding Research from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.

Marya R. Levenson, the Levitan Director of Teacher Education, is a Professor of the Practice in Education at Brandeis. Professor Levenson has worked as a teacher in the Boston Public Schools, Principal of Newton North High School, and Superintendent of the North Colonie (NY) School District. She helped to create the Harvard Principals Center and is on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Education Letter.

Nili Pearlmutter teaches the Reflective Teaching seminar in the Jewish Day School-Elementary concentration. She also works as a Field Advisor to MAT students in their first year of teaching and serves as a Field Instructor with the DeLeT Program. Nili received her Master's degree from Wheelock College in Boston, and has taught at the Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead, MA, and the Cambridgeport School in Cambridge, MA.

Professor Dirck Roosevelt directs the MAT Program. He teaches the central seminar in the Public Education -- Elementary concentration as well as courses in teacher research and social studies. His current research focuses on teachers' intellectural and moral authority and assessment of teacher education. He has published on public school classrooms as sites for creation of democratic culture, children's writing, and the improvement of teacher education. He has been a teacher and administrator in elementary schools in Vermont and Michigan; before coming to Brandeis, he was on the Education Studies faculty at the University of Michigan.