UTEP Teacher Prep

New Student Orientation!

Recap of our first two orientations in June, hosted by our friends in New Student Orientation.

NSO is where we welcome the next generation of teachers -- and Miners -- to the University and the College of Education. ⛏️ Upon completion of orientation, students will be ready to start their first semester of higher education in the fall. ✏️

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome these students and introduce everything the College of Education has to offer! 👩‍🏫 🍎

Two members of the Teacher Prep Team took part in the 240 Tutoring Texas Advisory Group in Austin. Ms. Richardson and Ms. Parral joined 240 Tutoring and other EPPs to preview new features that will be released on the 240 Tutoring platform, brainstorm ways to keep people in the teacher prep pipeline, discuss upcoming changes to the rules that govern teacher prep, and much more!

We are proud to partner with to elevate the teaching profession and teacher prep in Texas! 🙌

🚨Important Reminder🚨

Three state certification exams will be retired and reissued in 2024.

The last date to take these exams is September 1, 2024:
➡️ 231-ELAR 7-12
➡️ 158-Physical Education EC-12
➡️ 157-Health EC-12

New versions ( #331, 258, 257) will be available to take on September 2, 2024.

⭐Passing results on the current exam version may be used for certification purposes until September 1, 2025.

❔For more information, contact our Testing Coordinator, Ms. Lluvia Parral ([email protected]).

🎉Match Day

Over 100 teacher candidates were matched with Miner Teacher Residency partner school districts on May 23, 2024. Each resident will spend the 2024-2025 school year co-teaching alongside an experienced mentor teacher. After a year of intensive coaching and practice, they’ll be ready to lead their own classrooms. Best of luck to these future educators as they take this final step toward their professional careers!

We extend our heartfelt thanks to our College of Education supporter, Raiz Federal Credit Union, and to our partner school districts: Canutillo ISD, Clint ISD, El Paso ISD, Fabens ISD, Socorro ISD, Tornillo ISD, and Ysleta ISD.

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🎓 Congratulations to the Spring 2024 College of Education graduates! 🎓

👨‍🎓 Dr. Song An, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, had the honor of serving as the UTEP Faculty Grand Marshal for spring commencement.

👩‍🎓 Graduates Irwin Mena (Math/Science 4-8) and Andrea Del Toro (EC-6 Bilingual) led their peers as Banner Bearer and Student Marshal, respectively.

🎉 We wish everyone a safe celebratory weekend!

On May 9th, 140 undergraduate students were formally recognized as UTEP Teacher Candidates.

Students were called individually and their certification area was announced. Then, Dean Tanabe and Dr. Mein presented each student with a College of Education pin and lanyard. After the ceremony, students and their guests were treated to refreshments.

These students are now able to enroll in teacher prep coursework, take their state certification exams, and begin working towards residency.

Welcome to the Educator Preparation Program!

🎉 As another academic year comes to a close, UTEP’s spring 2024 student teachers and 2023-24 residents celebrated the completion of their clinical teaching experience. 🧑‍🏫

💯 Undergraduate students were awarded honor cords for exceptional academic performance throughout their college career.

💙 Charles Butt Scholars were presented with a stole to recognize their role in elevating the teaching profession and committing to work in underserved areas.

🏅 All students were presented with a Class of 2024 medallion to commemorate their success in the Educator Preparation Program.

✨ Congratulations to our spring 2024 program finishers! We are so proud of you! 🎓

West Texas Reading Symposium for Secondary School Educators

ESC 19 has curated a lineup of reading experts who will share their insights not only on language arts but across all academic subjects!

Cost: FREE!
Date: August 22, 2024
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Earn 6 CPE Hours

Session Summary: The West Texas Reading Symposium strives to improve evidence-based literacy instruction to secondary educators. By improving literacy instructional practices into a well-rounded education experience, our secondary students will be given the opportunity to hone their literacy skills. Sessions will span across contents. Because all of our students are expected to read and write in all their contents, all secondary educators are encouraged to attend.

Register on Click & Learn at ESC19.net
Session # 206090

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🍎Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!🎉

This week, we celebrate the past, present, and future teachers who play crucial roles in our schools and in society. From being role models and mentors to innovators and community builders, teachers wear many hats, each essential to guiding and nurturing young people.

Here's to the educators who do so much more than teach—they change lives. 🌍❤️

🧑‍🏫Education Job Fair April 26, 2024

Hundreds of education professionals and dozens of schools are currently at the biannual Education Job Fair in the Don Haskins Center.

Good luck to our graduates who are interviewing for positions!



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Congratulations to our El Paso ISD Residents completing their residency this semester!

EPISD hosted a ceremony where the new teachers signed their contracts for the 2024-25 school year. With a year of teaching already under their belts, they will step into their own classrooms equipped with the skills and experience of a second-year teacher!

Here's to a bright future shaping young minds! 🎉🍎✨

🌟 UTEP's College of Education was excited to welcome EPISD Education & Training seniors to the inaugural Aspiring Miner Teacher Tour! This groundbreaking event was packed with adventure and hands-on activities led by UTEP's faculty and staff from the College of Education. We were delighted to have the chance to welcome prospective students to the College of Education, and we eagerly anticipate their return this fall as future Miner teachers at UTEP! 🎒📚

😃 There were smiles all around at today's District Information Fair! 🎉 

We were thrilled to host our Residency partner school districts at UTEP for a meet-and-greet with our Fall 2024 Residents.

UTEP teacher candidates will learn their Residency placements on Match Day in May. Exciting events are ahead—stay tuned! 

   

EdWeek Webinar: Your Questions on the Science of Reading, Answered
🗓️Wednesday, April 17, 2024
🕛12:00-1:00 pm MDT

Join this webinar to learn from four K-12 leaders who are experienced with the Science of Reading and know what works in early literacy instruction.

They will discuss:
⭐ How states are responding to recent legislation aimed at enhancing early literacy initiatives.
⭐ Limitations of a general education curriculum for dual-language students, including what every early childhood program should provide in regard to language and culture
⭐ Strategies and progress monitoring techniques vital for supporting early readers.
⭐ The role that school leaders play in developing responsive literacy policies.

This webinar will be conversational in nature, so please submit a question for our panel when you register. If you are unable to attend, please register anyway, and we will email you the recording.

🎉In celebration of Student Employee Appreciation Week 2024 (April 8-12), we’re highlighting our fantastic student employees in the College of Education Center for Students Success (CSS) and Office of Student Teaching (OST).

⭐Heidy is a Criminal Justice major who has worked in the CSS since February 2023.

⭐Mildred is a Nursing major who has worked in the CSS since October 2022.

⭐Azul is an Education (EC-6 Bilingual) major who has worked in the CSS since February 2024.

⭐Rebecca is a Theatre major and Education minor who has worked in the CSS since January 2024.

⭐Michelle is a Biological Science major who has worked in OST since January 2023.

⭐Nidia is a Mechanical Engineering major who has worked in OST since February 2024.

💕Thank you for your hard work assisting other students, updating spreadsheets, and supporting COE events! Our offices would not run smoothly without you!

The Spring 2024 Education Job Fair is right around the corner!

🗓️Friday, April 26, 2024
🕘9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

📍Don Haskins Center
121 Glory Rd.
El Paso, TX 79902

➡️Check-in will take place at the registration table on the North Entrance of the Don Haskins Center.

➡️No pre-registration required. Come ready with resumes and dress to impress.

⛏️Current UTEP students, alumni and members of the community who have teaching credential, education experience or would like to get into the education field are encouraged to attend. Applicants will have the opportunity to connect with hiring managers, search for jobs and interview with potential employers.

📨For more information, email [email protected].

☕ with was a success on April 3rd!

📚Education College Council (ECC) members met for coffee and studying at 2Ten in Montecillo.

➡️Join ECC on April 16th at 6 pm in Starbucks at the Fountains for the last Cafecito Hour of the semester!

🧑‍🏫Student teaching application deadlines have been published.

🍁Fall 2024
Priority Deadline: 5/24/2024
Final Deadline: 6/28/2024

🌷Spring 2025
Priority Deadline: 11/8/2024
Final Deadline: 11/29/2024

💯All required state exams must be passed by the deadline for the semester in which you plan to student teach.

🧑‍💻Apply at http://coe.utep.edu/epop/applynow

🏆We are incredibly proud to announce that our team leader, Dr. Joyce Asing Cashman, was awarded Outstanding Staff Member at the annual College of Education Recognition Event.

This award could not have been given to a more deserving colleague!

We're proud of you, Doc! 🧡💙

🔸⛏️🎓🔸Future Miner Teachers, we look forward to seeing you at the Ultimate UTEP Miner 240Tutoring Boot Camp tomorrow! You may attend any time between 8 AM - 5 PM. This is a workshop dedicated to providing time, space and support to complete 240Tutoring. 📚📖 Our goal is to support exam readiness for Residency I & II, ACP and potential Fall 2024 Residency I students. See you there! 🌟

🚨📰NEWS ALERT!

University of Texas El Paso targets teacher shortage

It's estimated that nearly half of all schools in the country don't have enough teachers. To help change that, the University of Texas in El Paso offers a residency program to help ensure that first-time teachers succeed.

The "Miner Teacher Residency" gives students in the College of Education an opportunity to work in elementary and middle schools alongside working teachers.

Clifton Tanabe, dean of the UTEP College of Education, was part of a recent national roundtable discussion on ways to solve the teacher shortage, and said the program gives future educators the skills they need to be ready for their first day of class.

"A third grader in a first-year teacher's classroom is only going to get to do third grade once, but that teacher will be able to do the third grade again and again," he explained. "So, we want them ready for that first group of third graders that they take on."

Tanabe added nearly half of the students enrolled in the program are first-generation college students and 70% are bilingual. He adds that mirrors the population of students in the public school system in El Paso, where 90% of the students are Hispanic. Most of the new teachers remain in the area, he said.

Many school districts have been forced to leave positions open, or fill them with teachers who are not fully certified. Some rural Texas districts have gone to a four-day school week. And some teachers are leaving the profession, citing increased workloads, low pay and concerns about safety.

According to Tanabe, teacher retention is directly related to being successful in the first two years on the job - and the UT program addresses this.

"So, folks who graduate from our residency model in their first and second years in teaching are set up with an instructional coach who's from the university, from the College of Education, to work with them on individualized instructional improvement," he continued.

The residency program is in its sixth year. It currently has 62 teachers working in five different school districts in the El Paso area.

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💙Graduate Programs Tabling Fair!🧡
Come speak to reps from College of Education graduate programs on Thursday, April 25th from 10 am to 12 pm.

🧩Leave a comment for each clue you can solve!

✍️Education Students: Help us solve this crossword puzzle!

📍The puzzle is posted outside the Office of Student Teaching (EDUC 413).

🧡💙The clues focus on teacher prep, UTEP, and El Paso.

🧩Stop by and answer a clue!

Certification Exam & Prep Materials Update

As we previously announced, three state certification exams (PE, Health, ELAR 7-12) will be retired, updated, and reissued in 2024. We now have more information about the dates on which preparation materials for the new exam versions will be available.

Preparation Manuals: March 7, 2024

Practice Exams: July 1, 2024

Questions? Contact Ms. Lluvia Parral at [email protected]

The Education Building will be closed from Monday, March 11 through Friday, March 15 due to maintenance.

The Teacher Prep Team will be working remotely during this time.

Students are welcome to schedule phone and Zoom appointments.

👩‍🔬UTEP’s Math and Science Teachers (MaST) Academy in the College of Science is hosting its annual TExES Boot Camp.

The boot camp is available to UTEP students who are pursuing certification in Math 7-12, Science 7-12, or Physics/Math 7-12. Students not NOT have to be in MaST Academy to attend.

Two 1-week camps will be offered from 9 AM to 2 PM on the following dates:
⭐May 13 - 17, 2024 (in person)
⭐May 20 - 24, 2024 (virtual)

Lunch will be provided from May 13 - 17, 2024.

The Boot Camp is FREE if you apply by April 15, 2024.

The final deadline for applications is May 1, 2024.

Apply at https://www.utep.edu/science/mast/applications2/applications11.html or scan the QR code.

For more information, contact Dr. Katherine Meraz at [email protected].
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⏰Miner Teacher Residency (MTR) Exam Deadlines

⭐If you are scheduled to do Residency I in Fall 2024, you must pass your TExES content exam by May 3, 2024.

⭐If you are scheduled to do Residency I in Spring 2025, you must pass your TExES content exam by November 15, 2024.

🧑‍🏫Miner Teacher Residency Info Session

Join us if you are a B.S. in Education (BSED) major and are scheduled to do Residency I in fall 2024.

Choose one session:
1️⃣ Wednesday, February 21 @ 4-5 pm
2️⃣ Friday, February 23 @ 3-4 pm

📍Both sessions will be held in EDUC 405

Scan the QR code to RSVP.

Questions? Contact your advisor.