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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...
Besides traditional concentration requirements, students enrolled in UTEP must take two additional half-courses in adolescent psychology and classroom and educational issues. Program participants then must complete 60 hours of field work, in which they observe teachers at work at various area high schools...
While the requirements are numerous--particularly for the six seniors who have only one year to meet them--program standards are all based on Massachussesttes state guidelines, says Kay Merceth, director of UTEP. "The state is quite picky," she adds...
Despite the stringent requirements, UTEP has generated strong student interest, Leape comments. "The expression of interest has been so strong that we have no concern that we're going to have as many as we can handle." UTEP is expecting to receive as many as 100 applications for next fall, says Merceth...