UTeach

The UTeach Institute was originally founded at the University of Texas–Austin to provide a high-quality teacher preparation route for top science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students. Now a national program replicated on numerous campuses, UTeach is a specific response to the need for increasing the number of STEM teachers in the pipeline. UTeach actively recruits outstanding students (both undergraduate and postbaccalaureate) with high minority representation, and it prepares its teacher candidates to teach diverse students in high-need schools. After candidates complete the program and take full-time teaching positions, the program continues to provide two years of individualized mentoring and induction support. UTeach reports that the retention of its graduates in the profession is much higher than average for science and mathematics teachers, and it claims that almost half of its graduates teach in low-income schools.