Last year's TEP Fellowship awardees with TEP Director Tine Sloan
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold its 2016 Teacher Education Fellowship Celebration on Friday, May 20, 4-6 pm on the Ackerman Terrace at the Education Building. The event is a community celebration and recognition of the students working on their teaching credentials at UC Santa Barbara. For the academic year 2015-16, 42 students received funds from 18 different fellowships. The focus of the fellowships range from students who will go on to teach math and science to those who are committed to teach in a low-income, ethnically diverse community.
UCSB’s Teacher Education Program (TEP) offers a rigorous, 13-month, post-graduate M.Ed.+Credential program (an academic year with 2 summers). It is one of the highest quality programs in the nation, with state-of-the art practice grounded in partner schools, a focus on teaching to reach all learners, and teacher educators with established records of success. TEP works with one cohort of teacher candidates per year and keeps the program small to ensure individualized attention for each teacher candidate (approximately 100 candidates). Course- and field-work is concurrent, which means candidates spend the entire academic year in schools, developing their practice with daily guidance, then extending their learning in afternoon/evening courses. This allows for a more streamlined, purposeful integration of university and fieldwork, which drives our faculty to collaborate across all aspects of teacher preparation. TEP strives for a community of learners where everyone – teacher candidates, teacher educators, and K-12 teachers – are working together to meet the needs of our new, our diverse, and our very different generation of learners.
TEP offers a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for elementary school teachers; a Single Subject Teaching Credential for junior high or high school teachers in: English, Mathematics, History/Social Science, World Language (French, Latin, and Spanish), Science (Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics), and Industrial Technology; and, an Education Specialist Moderate/Severe Teaching Credential for special education teachers.