Joint Program with Yale Graduate Schools
The Teacher Preparation Program has a long history of working with students from the Graduate and Professional Schools to design a program that results in a Connecticut secondary teaching certificate. The Teacher Preparation admissions process begins only after graduate students have been admitted to the graduate or professional school in which they will be studying primarily. Recent students have come from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Divinity School and the School of Music.
Admissions process
- Review the content coursework requirements for a Connecticut certificate, and determine how your coursework in the content area you are seeking to teach aligns with those requirements.
- Set up a meeting with the Director to design a program that is feasible given the demands of your graduate work. Call the office at (203) 432-4631.
Program options
All courses are one credit (i.e. 3 semester hours of credit), except where indicated.
- One-year plan: This allows for the transition into teaching in one academic year, and assumes that you have already completed all the required content coursework.
- Fall
- TPRP 190, Schools, Community and the Teacher
- TPRP 192, Observation (1/2 credit)
- TPRP 290-6, Methods of Teaching
- TPRP 194, Educational Psychology
- U.S. History (if needed)
- Spring
- TPRP 193, Observation (1/2 credit)
- TPRP 195, Special Education
- TPRP 299, Student Teaching (3 credits)
- Two-year plan: This follows the undergraduate course sequence.
- Fall (year 1)
- TPRP 190, Schools, Community and the Teacher
- TPRP 194, Educational Psychology
- Fall (year 2)
- TPRP 290-6, Methods of Teaching
- U.S. History (if needed)
- Spring (year 1)
- TPRP 199, Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools
- TPRP 195, Special Education
- Spring (year 2)
- TPRP 299, Student Teaching (3 credits)
- Either of the above plans with student teaching deferred to the following fall (adding one additional semester to the program).
