WHY TEP AT HARVARD?
You need special expertise to work effectively in urban schools. The Harvard Teacher Education Program will give you the tools to challenge students to improve their performance, develop curriculum that engages today's urban adolescents, and lead the effort to shape reform for years to come.
- TEP prepares teachers for the specific challenges of urban education through extensive hands-on training in urban teaching, rigorous coursework, and placements in the center of a vibrant urban environment from day one.
- TEP helps candidates understand the diverse and unique challenges of today's urban classrooms and adopt new leadership roles within our schools
- TEP is the first step in a process of lifelong learning. Graduates leave TEP with skills of reflection that will aid them throughout their professional careers.
Through TEP you can make a difference. You will transform your passion to enhance the lives of today's diverse, urban, adolescents in effective teaching practices in classrooms at the middle or high school levels (grades 5-12) in biology, earth science, English, general science, history, mathematics, chemistry, physics, or political science/political philosophy.
Three core beliefs ground our work:
- Good teaching depends on deep subject-matter knowledge, pedagogical expertise, knowledge of adolescents, and practical understanding of organization change in schools.
- Every teacher should have expertise in literacy, leadership, and technology to help schools advance student learning.
- Learning about teaching requires strong and vibrant partnerships between the university and the community.