Teaching Credential/MA

Earn Your Credential and M.Ed.

Overview January 23, 2025

Prepare to become a highly qualified teacher in just one year with the UC Davis Teacher Education Program. Earn your Master of Education (M.Ed.) and teaching credential with the support of experienced course instructors, resident teachers in your K-12 classroom placements, a teaching supervisor, and a close-knit cohort of students in your subject area.

Our four-quarter program combines rigorous UC Davis coursework with hands-on teaching placements in diverse urban, suburban, and rural K-12 school districts throughout the Sacramento region. UC Davis Teacher Education Program graduates are highly sought-after by Northern California school districts.

We offer five single subject credentials for students who want to teach at the middle and high school levels, a multiple subject credential for those who want to teach in elementary schools, and bilingual authorizations in Spanish and Mandarin.

Bilingual Authorization

“I really have fond memories of the professors in the program. It has been an incredible experience and I’m so thankful for the opportunity that UC Davis has given me.”

Lucia Arroyo, Cred. ’17 M.A. ’18

UC Licensure and Certification Disclosure: Notice to Students re: Professional Licensure and Certification

For the annual Title II Institutional Report, including results for UC Davis, see the Annual Institutional Report Cards section on the Commission on Teacher Credentialing website

Day in the Life of a Credential Student

Join credential and Spanish bilingual authorization student Kimmy for a day of teaching

Why I Love Teaching

Hear from alumni about why they find their teaching careers rewarding

Become a Teacher: Learn about the UC Davis Difference

People

Faculty Profile September 1, 2015 EMPHASIS AREA: SCI/AG. Science Education, Groupwork, Race and Schooling, Social Emotional Intelligence, Social Justice Education, Literacy in Science

Alexis Patterson Williams

Professor, Chair of Teacher Education and Chancellor’s Fellow

Alexis Patterson Williams, Ph.D., joined the School of Education in July 2015 as an assistant professor in science education. She is currently a CAMPOS Faculty Scholar and is excited to work with her cohort to develop a research center that focuses on increasing the participation of women of color in STEM related fields.

UC Davis, School of Education Building, Room 257, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616

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(530) 752-8675

adpatterson@ucdavis.edu

Staff Profile September 16, 2021

Lola Muldrew

Associate Program Chair, Teacher Education

Education

Ph.D., Math Education, University of California, Davis, December 2012
Dissertation Title: The Meaning of Adversity within Traditional K-12 Math Classrooms in the United States from the Perspective of African-American Individuals
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Ambrose, School of Education

Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics (M.A.T.), University of California, Davis, June 2007

lmmuldrew@ucdavis.edu