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Overview
The Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP) is a 15-month MA+ Teaching credential program that offers the following pathways:
Elementary/Multiple Subject Pathway (K-6/8)
Secondary Math
Secondary Science Pathway
Secondary English Pathway
Secondary Social Science Pathway
BTEP prepares teachers committed to co-creating powerful and enriching classrooms that embody the values, relationships, and experiences of a more just world.
We believe that:
Teaching Creates Humanizing Spaces
Teaching Critically Examines and Strategically Addresses Systems of Power
Teaching Entails Relationships, Ethics, and Technical Craftwork
Teaching Fosters Lifelong Processes of Learning and Research
Teaching Requires Intentional Effort in the Face of Complexities and Contradictions
Teaching Transforms Oneself
We remind ourselves that at its core, teaching is an endeavor to be more fully human, to embody the fullness of human life in ourselves and our students. Teaching is simultaneously beautiful, joyous, amusing, awe-inspiring, difficult, painful, frightening, nerve wracking, and embarrassing; it entails every emotion that makes us human. Teaching displays our strengths and our shortcomings, which becomes an invitation for us to become better human beings. It is to this wonderfully complex vocation that we purposefully commit ourselves.