UHCLTeach
Why should I join UHCLTeach?
UHCLTeach (PDF) is designed to prepare the best science and mathematics high school teachers in the country.
- Receive a teaching certification as part of your degree plan making you eligible to teach high school right after graduation.
- UHCLTeach gives you an opportunity to teach in an actual school from the very first semester, making it stand out among other teaching programs.
- Many districts offer a "sign on bonus" for qualified secondary mathematics and science teachers.
- Teaching experience will enhance your medical school/dental/nursing applications.
- UHCLTeach programs have 100% job placement after graduation.
- Develop conceptual understanding and mastery of your subject-area content as well as pedagogy in the same degree.
How can I join UHCLTeach?
- Get started today by enrolling in TCED 1101. After getting the first two teaching experiences for free (TCED 1101 and TCED 1102), decide if you want to continue with the rest of the curriculum.
- Transfer to UHCLTeach even if you are a sophomore or junior. You can also pursue UHCLTeach as a double major.
Our Students Talk about Their Experiences...
“I feel the program is helpful in teaching pedagogy skills that I would otherwise not get to experience if I were to, for example, take my degree and complete an alternative certification program.”
“I really enjoyed working with all my professors. They were amazing and very supportive. It helped that they have teaching experience because it helped model how to best teach students and make everyone feel included and a part of the class community.”
“Each class I’ve taught in gives experiences that are different. I feel like I’ve gotten to teach in so many diverse classrooms with different kinds of students, I feel prepared.”
“The whole program is really community-based. When a new student shows up, we get put immediately in groups with them, and they join our study groups and our friend groups we make because of the classes we all take together.”
“There’s a lot of community here because a lot of us will have each other for all our content classes, too. So, because our UHCLTeach courses help us become comfortable with each other, it’s easy to work on other classes together, too!”
“I feel like I have learned my content area very well and I am able to explain it in a way that it is teachable. Also, through this student teaching I was able to solidify what my rules and expectations are going to be when I get my own classroom.”
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