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.

Rebecca Alber
Rebecca Alber
Melissa Arias
Melissa Arias
Jaye Darby
Jaye Darby
Annamarie Francois
Annamarie Francois
Megan Franke
Megan Franke
Frank Heuser
Frank Heuser
Rachel Green
Rachel Green
Emma Hipolito
Emma Hipolito
Tyrone Howard
Tyrone Howard
Jo Ann Isken
Jo Ann Isken
Sara Kersey
Sara Kersey
Jane Kim Leona Kwon Darlene Lee
Darlene Lee
Eduardo Lopez
Eduardo Lopez
Imelda Nava
Imelda Nava-Landeros
Marjorie Orellana
Marjorie Orellana
Susan Oswald
Susan Oswald
Jaime Park
Jaime Park
Jody Priselac
Jody Priselac
F.H. Rafi
F.H. Rafi
William Sandoval
William Sandoval
Jeff Share
Jeff Share
Concepcion Valadez
Concepcion Valadez

 

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

Want to apply to the program?

The application filing period is open from mid-September until December 1st.

How to Apply

TEP faculty members are extremely welcoming and they truly care about everyone’s well-being in the program”

Ariana Reyes
TEP Novice Year at University High School