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Daniel is one of 19 students enrolled in the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), which began in 1985 as a joint-initiative between the College and the School of Education. The idea is to allow undergraduates to get their teaching certification for public schools by the time they graduate from the College. In addition to taking four required classes at the Ed School, students must complete two semesters of field work—pre-practicum, which involves observing a teacher for six hours a week, and practicum, which is what Daniel is currently doing. When they apply for the program...
Since August, Kim has served as the Associate Director of the program. A UTEP alum himself, Kim graduated from Harvard and went on to teach for three years in a high school outside Boston. He hopes to be able to make the program more accessible to students. “I’m not trying to be the UTEP salesperson,” he explains. “I know UTEP works for some people but it doesn’t work for a lot of other people. But what I try to tell students is that public service...
...University's more career-oriented programs such as the Undergraduate Teaching Education Program (UTEP), administered by the Graduate School of Education (GSE), and Summerbridge--a worldwide teaching organization--tend to gear their training toward students interested in pursuing careers in education, but most PBHA-affiliated programs focus on just bringing interested volunteers to a level where they can participate in the afterschool teaching or mentoring programs included under PBHA's umbrella...
...secured more than $30 million in grants and helped overhaul the district's curriculum and teaching methods. Some schools wiped out uninspired drills and work sheets in the younger grades, and high schools began pushing students to take three years each of rigorous college preparatory math and science. Before UTEP stepped in, just a small percentage of students took Algebra II and Chemistry; now more than half do. Compared with 1994, when just one school in the university-aided districts netted an exemplary rating on state exams, last year 18 did. Most important, the university ascribes this year...
...auditoriums for class, can spend their days on-site at the K-12 public schools. Several mornings a week, a professor lectures in a borrowed room and then the education students fan out to classrooms to perfect their new skills. Says Sally Blake, an associate professor of education at UTEP: "Now I can see what actually works in the classroom with real students and teachers." Henry Levin, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University's Teachers College, says that "universities like to cop the attitude that they can make public schools better overnight." But after working hands...