AUSTIN, Texas—After 10 years of incubation at The University of Texas at Austin, the highly successful teacher preparation program UTeach is spreading to other universities throughout the country, thanks to a partnership with the National Math and Science Initiative and the Texas High School Project.
In all, 13 universities will receive grants of up to $2.4 million to implement programs modeled after UTeach in order to improve teacher education in math and science. Since its inception in 1997, UTeach has doubled the number of mathematics and science majors being certified to become teachers at The University of Texas at Austin.
The UTeach Institute is providing direction and leadership to expand and replicate the UTeach program across the nation.
The following universities are implementing programs based on UTeach:
- The University of California at Berkeley; Cal Teach
- The University of California at Irvine; Cal Teach
- The University of Colorado at Boulder; CU Teach
- University of Florida; FloridaTeach
- Florida State University; FSUTeach
- University of Houston; teachHOUSTON
- The University of Kansas; UKanTeach
- Louisiana State University; Geaux Teach
- University of North Texas; TNT
- Northern Arizona University; NAUTeach
- Temple University; TUteach
- The University of Texas at Dallas; UTeach Dallas
- The University of Western Kentucky; SKyTeach
For more information about the UTeach Institute, please visit their website at www.uteach-institute.org.
For more information about NMSI, please visit their website at www.nationalmathandscience.org.
Written by Patrick Brendel.
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