Teachers for Tomorrow (TFT)
Benefits
- Integrated Curriculum: teacher preparation courses taught along with liberal arts courses
- Early field experiences in elementary schools
- Opportunity to take the program as a "cohort group" with the same advisors and the same in-school experiences
- A minor or area of concentration of your choice
- Completion of the bachelor's degree after 4 years
- By the end of the 5th year: Completion of the Multiple Subject (elementary) Teaching Credential & Completion of optional Master of Arts in Teaching degree (with 3 additional courses), New for Fall 2009: Option to earn a Special Education Teaching Credential!
Eligibility
- Admission to SMC as a Freshman or Sophomore with a strong academic background.
- Completion of the Teachers for Tomorrow Application for Admission (pdf)
- Preferred: Three years of successful foreign language study in high school
- A commitment to becoming an elementary teacher
For further information, contact:
- Jerry Brunetti, Ph.D., Teachers for Tomorrow Co-Coordinator: (925) 631-4029; jbrunett@stmarys-ca.edu
- Susan Marston, Ed.D. Teachers for Tomorrow Co-Coordinator: (925) 631-4059; smarston@stmarys-ca.edu
- Deepak Sawhney, Ph.D., Program Director: (925) 631-8155; dsawhney@stmarys-ca.edu
