UTeach

Teacher certification program

UTeach is a teacher certification program administered by the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. It was created in 1997 to address both the shortage of qualified secondary mathematics, science, and computer science teachers as well as the quality of those entering the field.

The program has been well-received, cited by the National Academy of Sciences as a model program addressing the need for more highly qualified mathematics and science teachers.^[1]

UTeach has been a model for mathematics and science education programs at other institutions, and has been expanded to involve an additional forty-four universities in twenty-one states by 2019.^[2]

2008-2012 (cohort 1): Florida State University; Louisiana State University; Northern Arizona University; Temple University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Florida; University of Houston; University of Kansas; University of North Texas; University of Texas at Dallas; Western Kentucky University
2010-2014 (cohort 2): Cleveland State University; Middle Tennessee State University; University of Colorado Colorado Springs; University of Memphis; University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Texas, Arlington; University of Texas at Tyler
2011-2015 (cohort 3): Columbus State University; Southern Polytechnic State University; University of Massachusetts, Lowell; University of West Georgia
2012-2016 (cohort 4): Boise State University; Florida Institute of Technology; Towson University; University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; University of Arkansas at Little Rock; University of Central Arkansas; University of Texas at Brownsville; University of Texas, Pan American
2013-2018 (cohort 5): Drexel University; Florida International University; University of Maryland, College Park; Oklahoma State University; Old Dominion University; University of Alabama, Birmingham
2015-2019 (cohort 6): George Washington University; Louisiana Tech University; University of Massachusetts, Boston; University of Nevada, Reno; West Virginia University

References

^ Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century; Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2007). Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-10039-7. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Universities Replicating UTeach Spring 2014 enrollment nationwide (6,704 students)" (PDF). www.uteach-institute.org. UTeach Institute. January 26, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2015.