Word: utep
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...going to actually graduate with a job which is a strange thing at Harvard. But I'm going to be a teacher, that's the nice thing," says Carver, who is one of 13 Harvard students currently enrolled in the Undergraduate Teaching Education Program (UTEP...
...university-sponsored program, which started last fall, is Harvard's latest effort to certify undergraduates to teach in the nation's public high schools. Although the School of Education offered a master of arts degree in teaching back in the early '70s, UTEP is the first teacher training program directed specifically at Harvard undergrads...
Other Ivy League schools such as Brown University have offered similar programs for a number of years, says Thomas E. Hassan, a UTEP advisor and a freshman proctor. At Harvard, students who complete the program will be able to teach high school in public school systems in 33 states including Massachusetts...
Applications to the four-part program are due in the spring and local teachers, like Diane Tabor, say the process has garnered some of the cream of Harvard's crop. An assistant principal at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School where UTEP students are currently observing classes, Tabor notes the value of the application process. "[UTEP] really has tried to seek out students who are intelligent and academically gifted," she says...
Education experts say the prospects for UTEP students upon graduation appear bright. "By 1992 we will need more than a million new teachers because of resignations, retirements, and increased enrollment," says Howard J. Carroll, a spokesman for the National Education Association...