Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP)

We are a 15-month MA and credential program with the following pathways: Elementary/Multiple Subjects Single Subject English Single Subject History/Social Sciences Single Subject Math Single Subject Science We also offer Spanish Bilingual Authorization. The Berkeley Teacher Education Program prepares teachers who are committed to co-creating powerful and enriching classrooms that embody the values, relationships, and experiences of a more just world. Such spaces of learning are only possible when teachers build on the strengths and assets of students. These spaces emerge from a commitment, grounded in humility and hope, to construct classrooms, pedagogies, and practices in solidarity with families and communities who have been marginalized. In doing so, we strive to fulfill ongoing struggles for education that are genuinely for the public good and that resist prioritizing market-driven agendas over people. BTEP seeks to cultivate classrooms that are joyful, where students and teachers authentically care for each other, and where teachers foster students’ curiosity and love for learning. We endeavor to create spaces that build on students’ intuitions, creativity, and capacity for joint meaning making to develop their agency as historians, mathematicians, scientists, readers, and writers. We integrate the arts, humanities, and social theory as we teach young people who imaginatively navigate and meld diverse social and digital spaces as democratic agents in an increasingly pluralistic society.