Grounded in Content
The University of Texas at Austin has built a teacher education model that presents courses through the lens of math and science.
The guests arrive from across campus and out of town, greeting one another with handshakes, hugs, and the familiarity that comes from having shared the same classes, and now, the same careers.
A Tex-Mex band kicks into song, filling the leafy courtyard with acoustic and electric sound. A line forms at the buffet, supplied by a top local barbecue joint. And the attendees—mathematics and science teachers, most in their 20s and 30s—are feted at a picnic worthy of a university’s most prestigious alums.
Those graduates joined undergraduate students one weekend this fall for a 10th-anniversary reunion of UTeach , a teacher-preparation program at the University of Texas at Austin. The program has drawn widespread recognition in recent years, and it is now a model for revamping the training of math and science...
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