Teacher Education

The Albuquerque Teacher Residency Partnership is currently recruiting candidates for the program’s next cohort. ATRP is intended for students who hold a bachelor’s degree in any degree field. As with any teacher preparation program, students are...

Olivia Tucker has joined The University of New Mexico Fine Arts College faculty in the Instrumental Music program as an assistant professor of Music Education. She started her music teaching career as a band teacher at middle and high schools but...

New Mexico’s Public Education Department (NMPED) invested in aspiring teachers this summer – helping fund the Albuquerque Teacher Residency Partnership (ATRP) program with a more than $250,000 grant. ATRP is a collaboration between The University of New...

For years, New Mexican children have felt the effects of a teacher shortage in our schools, but a recent partnership between The University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools is trying to close the gap. The program, Albuquerque Teacher...

Two new scholarship opportunities created to help alleviate the teacher shortage in New Mexico have taken shape at The University of New Mexico. Both, the Grow Your Own Teacher (GYOT) Act and the Teacher Preparation Affordability (TPA) Act are...

The University of New Mexico's College of Education hosts an Education Summit to create an opportunity to bring key stakeholders together to explore the possibilities and avenues scholarships like the Grow Your Own Teacher and Teacher Preparation...

Sharon Head, doctoral candidate in Special Education at The University of New Mexico, was recognized by the Moriarty-Edgewood School District with the New Mexico School Boards Association 2019 Excellence in Student Achievement Award. The Excellence in...

Aspiring teachers with a Bachelor’s degree now have a new pathway to the profession: the Albuquerque Teacher Residency Partnership (ATRP), a renewed collaboration between The University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the...

It takes a special kind of person to pursue a life of teaching. New Mexico’s 2018 Teacher of the Year, Ivonne Orozco, took the generosity of that pursuit one step further, choosing to remain in New Mexico and give back to the community that helped her...

Most of us can point to at least one: the teacher we will never forget. The “O Captain, my Captain…” who set the bar higher and opened us up to new worlds and ideas. For The University of New Mexico alumna Ivonne Orozco Acosta, that teacher was Mr....