TEP faculty members are extremely welcoming and they truly care about everyone’s well-being in the program”
UCLA Teacher Education Program Core Principles
UCLA’s Teacher Education Program (TEP) was founded in 1992 and is guided by eight core principles:
- Embody a social justice agenda
- Foster sustained engagement in teaching and learning
- Attend to the moral, cultural, and political dimensions of teaching
- Blend theory and practice
- Collaborate across institutions and communities
- Participate in collaborative inquiry within communities of practice
- Focus simultaneously on professional education, school reform
and reinventing the university’s role in K-14 schooling - Mirror the diverse, caring, anti-racist, socially-responsible learning
communities
Teacher Education Program Faculty
The Teacher Education Program is led by Program Director Emma Hipolito and Faculty Directors Megan Franke and Marjorie Orellana. Faculty members work with students in teams and/or teach core Teacher Education Program coursework.
Teacher Education Program Administration
Jackie Honda, TEP Program Manager
Yolanda Reyna, Program Coordinator
Title II Report
Annual Report Card on California Teacher Preparation Programs for the Academic Year 2019-2020
The latest Commission on Teacher Credentialing Annual Report Card on Teacher Preparation Programs, published in September 2021