The Department of Education's Teacher Education Program (TEP)

Preparing future teachers and leaders with a deep understanding of educational research and classroom practice, and a commitment to social justice.

“A teaching career provides an opportunity to help shape lives; you have the power to help people realize a potential that they may not even see in themselves.” TEP Graduate

Program Director: Professor Andrew Garrod

Dartmouth students have the unique opportunity as undergraduates to receive certification in one of the most noble professions: teaching in our nation’s public schools. The Department of Education’s Teacher Education Program offers an undergraduate course of study and student teaching, which leads to Public School Certification in elementary education and nine different content areas in middle and high school teaching (Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, English, French, General Science, Mathematics, Physics, Social Studies, and Spanish). The important connection between the interdisciplinary approach to learning and development taken by the Department and our strong partnerships with schools fully prepares our graduates for meaningful careers both inside and outside of the classroom walls. See the Teacher Education Brochure for more information.

Information about applying to the TEP can be found here.
Information about the Elementary Certification Program can be found here.
Information about the Secondary Certification Program can be found here.

2006 Teacher Education Students with Mentor Teachers

Successful Certification Candidates Will:

... learn from department professors at the forefront of new approaches to understanding brain development and learning, with opportunities to collaborate with these professors on their research and its intersections with teaching and the classroom.

... explore pedagogy while working with faculty who share over forty years of experience teaching in K-12 classrooms in the United States and Canada.

… teach in two schools in our partner districts, ensuring classroom experience with students from a range of socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

… have the opportunity to teach and work with young people from exceptionally diverse cultural backgrounds, whether students from under-resourced urban and rural schools in the SEAD Program or with students on a central Pacific coral atoll in the Marshall Islands Volunteer Teaching Program.

… develop life skills such as organization, backwards planning, public speaking, and understanding of motivation and performance – skills that have implications far beyond the classroom walls. Recent alumni/ae from the program are teaching in as geographically and culturally diverse places as the Boston suburbs, rural Alaska, Turkey, and Lebanon, NH, while others are studying in business school and law school, tutoring a rock star's children, and working as an administrator in a New Orleans charter school, among many other positions. As one TEP graduate wrote, “Student teaching is a wonderful preparation for any life direction.”

… benefit from a program that is kept to small numbers intentionally, allowing for both frequent supervision during classroom teaching and individualized instruction and attention from Teacher Education Program faculty.

 … partner with very strong mentor teachers in our four partner school districts in New Hampshire and Vermont.

… earn a NH Certification that can almost immediately lead to certification in all 50 states.

… have the opportunity, if needed, to use a Fifth Fall at a nominal fee to complete the student teaching component.

Does all of this appeal to you? Then consider applying today!

General application procedures are described here.
Details about the Elementary Certification Program can be found here.
Details about the Secondary Certification Program can be found here.

“It is the most challenging, the hardest, the most rewarding, the most humbling, the most flattering, and the most wonderful thing you will ever do in college.” TEP Graduate

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