CU Denver’s Science Education program has recently won some very prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation. If you’re interested in changing the future of whole generations of children who currently aren’t receiving a basic grounding in science, and helping students develop a true love for science courses and experiential learning opportunities, we hope that you’ll apply to this program. You’ll learn from world-class, supportive faculty as you:
- develop expertise in fundamental and experiential science concepts and processes
- use active, engaging and collaborative learning methods
- create science curriculum materials
- study ground-breaking teaching methods and
- immerse yourself with real work in our professional development schools, helping students ask questions, observe, analyze, explain, and draw conclusions.
Preparing science teachers is a highly collaborative process between the Science department in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the School of Education & Human Development at CU Denver as well as our highly experienced K-12 partner educators in the metro area. Through the Science department, you’ll garner the essential content knowledge of a science teacher during the first 3 to 3.5 years of your bachelors degree. Then in your final fourth year, you will immediately begin "living the life of a teacher" as you quickly become a vital member of the teaching staff at one of our metro area urban partner schools as a teacher candidate intern. At the same time you’ll be simultaneously taking urban teacher education classes so that you can immediately apply what you learn in your internship classroom. Our Urban Community Teacher Education program is nationally recognized for having one of the most innovative, collaborative teacher preparation models where top faculty work side by side with experienced K-12 partner educators to prepare you to have a profound impact on the lives of students in our most urban and diverse schools. In fact, our candidates enter their first year of teaching with the knowledge, skills, and confidence of 2nd and 3rd year teachers!