Alumni Opportunities
Alumni can get involved with Center X, and continue to stay connected with UCLA and other fellow graduates through a variety of opportunities and events. TEP Alumni are invited to annual reunions, and are provided opportunities for involvement in the Urban Educator Network.
Joining an Inquiry, Support or Focus Group
Inquiry, support and focus groups held throughout the year provide an arena where graduates can share their teaching experiences and struggles to become social justice educators.
Participating in Center X Conferences
As part of the Urban Educator Network, alumni can participate in conferences sponsored by Center X at a reduced rate, e.g. With Different Eyes, The Chancellor's Conference, and others.
Working with CBOP fellows
Outreach Program (CBOP, pronounced, "c-bop") provides outreach targeted to selected high school and UCLA undergraduate students from economically and/or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. Its primary goal is to increase the academic competitiveness of prospective applicants to UCLA undergraduate, graduate and/or professional schools.
Assisting with Recruiting
Alumni are very important models and sources of information for the TEP Program to prospective students.
Mentoring a Resident, a first year teacher
With the transition from their novice year into independent teaching positions in urban schools, residents continue to need and want to forge coalitions with like-minded educators. Contact and support is invaluable as the residents negotiate new school cultures and frame new practices.
Serving as Guiding Teachers to Novices
Guiding teachers support novice teachers during their student teaching in designated urban schools with racially, culturally and linguistically diverse low-income student populations.
Participating in Research
In our efforts to assess our approach to teacher education, Network members help by participating in research that:
- Gauges the effectiveness and persistence of our graduates in urban schools.
- Measures the extent graduates become embedded within the communities where they work.
- Examines how graduates conceive student access and seek to promote this goal.
- Explores the ways graduates become agents of change.
Contact:
Eloise Lopez Metcalfe
(310) 206-4621
elm@ucla.edu
Solange Castro-Belcher
(310) 825-1530
belcher@gseis.ucla.edu
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