TEACH (Training via elearning: An Alternative Certification Hybrid) offers an interdisciplinary curriculum with special emphases on the teacher of the culturally, linguistically and academically diverse child. TEACH offers a Texas teacher certification program that specifically meets the needs of the  growing diverse student population in Texas classrooms.  More importantly, offering much flexibility, the program is tailored to the teacher candidate’s learning needs.

Removing the barriers to time, work, and geography, TEACH provides an individual an alternative to a physical classroom. Training for a Texas teacher certificate is twofold. First, the individual acquires the theory necessary to meet the rigors of a Texas classroom in an online classroom.  Second, the teacher applies the theories to practice in a 36-week paid internship or a 14-week non-paid student teacher internship. Both internships lead to a Texas Standard Certificate.  Guiding the teacher is a team of teachers and professors who bring over 300 years of teaching experience in Texas classrooms. More importantly, TEACH delivers a teacher preparation program which exceeds SBEC Program Hour and  No Child Left Behind Act requirements.

Special Opportunity

While candidates will select a certificate area in which to concentrate, the curriculum’s interdisciplinary format prepares candidates with the pedagogical foundations for all certificate areas. Thus, candidates may access, at no additional cost, additional courses to complete the second or third certificate areas.

Advantages

• Work at your own pace and time in the comfort of your home.
• Rolling enrollment. No enrollment deadlines; multiple entry points into the program.
• Prompt transcript evaluation; quick turn-around screening process.
• Ongoing support throughout the program by online mentor, online professor, classroom mentor, and two classroom supervisors.
• Possibility of earning two or more certificates for the price of one!

Certificates Offered

Elementary, EC-6: Generalist, BIED, ESL

Elementary/Middle, 4-8: Generalist, English, ESL, History, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Mathematics/Science

Secondary,  8-12: Chemistry, English, ESL, History, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technology Applications, Science (Composite), Life Science, Physical Science, Mathematics/Physical Science/Engineering

All Level,  EC-12: Music, Physical Ed., Technology Applications, Spanish, SPED

Supplemental: BIED, ESL,  SPED

Program Deliverables

• 12 Professors, Online Course of Study
• 6 Core Courses, 14 Mini-Courses, 8 uGuide Resources Courses, 4 TExES Prep Courses
• 20 Educational Videos in zeToolbox
• 10  Weebly, Online Workshops, plus a hands-on, Robotics Workshop
• 3 Textbooks: Wong & Wong, The Brain Train, Discipline Specific Text
• 2 Pieces of Software Demos: Inspiration, Portfolio Builder
• 15 TExES Prep  Handouts
• 12/7 Support via Internet, Telephone
• 3 or More Sessions, One-On-One TExES Prep Tutoring
• 2 or More Sessions, Résumé Review & Interview Coaching
• 23 TExES Practice Exams Available Through the Testing Site
• 8 Supervisor Visits: 4 per Semester (SBEC requires 3 per internship)
• 2 Clinical Supervisors: If More Classroom Visits are Required, Supervisor Enters Teacher’s Classroom Twice a Week
• 1 Mentor, Campus: Paid Stipend, Observes at Least 3 Times
• 1 Retired Teacher Mentor, Average, 1:3
• 3-Year Program Support (Two Years Beyond Internship Year)
• Special Assistance:
• Veterans, we can assist you in accessing your GI Bill funds.
• Teachers, who hold more than 2-years of classroom experience. We can assist you in serving a reduced student teacher experience from 14-weeks to 12-weeks.  

Types of Internships

Paid: Teacher of Record, 36 Weeks

Non-Paid: Student Teacher, 14 Weeks

Concurrent: Internship possibility after serving a Teaching Assistant position. Internship possibility: 1) student teacher placement, non-paid or 2) Teacher of Record position, paid.  TEACH provides supervisory services to the Aide leading to improved future teaching skills and marketability.

Out-of-State Internship: A teacher may serve a 14-week internship while living in another state. Pending approval by SBEC, Spring 2012.

Out-of-Country Internship: A teacher may serve a 14-week internship while living in another country. Pending approval by SBEC, Spring 2012.  1st Country Connection:  TEACH working toward  supporting an internship in Taiwan under the direction of Dainel Jenne.

Cost of Program: As little as $300 enrolls you in the program.  Balance may be paid monthly over 10-months. Program total, $3500-$3700 with discounts!!!  Email/call Dr. Q for the month’s special offer.

Job Placement

The TEACH Program is well respected throughout Texas.  As a result, our teacher placement rate for our graduates, per year, is very high. Many of our TEACH graduates, however, after teaching for several years, move into administration or seek an advanced degree. In addition, nearly 89.7%, on average, of teachers who enroll in TEACH, each year, secure an internship, whether student teacher placement or teacher of record position, during the 1st semester after enrolling.