Department of Teacher Education

Office: Sweeney Hall 305

Telephone: 408-924-3771

Professors

Katya Aguilar
Brent Duckor
Mark K. Felton
Roxana Marachi
Colette Rabin
Grinell Smith
Patricia Swanson
David A. Whitenack, Chair

Associate Professors

Allison Briceño
Luis Poza
Wanda Watson

Assistant Professors

Tiffani Marie
Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz
Lara Kassab
Kathryn Ribay
Sandra Zuñiga Ruiz
Tammie Visintainer

Overview

The Teacher Education Program (TED) at San José State University is California’s oldest public teacher preparatory program. We are committed to preparing the highest quality TK-12 educators, with knowledge, skills, dispositions, and ethics to teach students in our culturally diverse and technologically complex global communities. Teaching is a reliable and rewarding profession for those desiring to influence the lives of children and adolescents. TED prepares teachers who focus on students and their learning needs through culturally sustaining pedagogy, antiracist practices, and other asset-oriented approaches to emancipatory education.

The Teacher Education Department offers preparation for a California multiple subject (Transitional Kindergarten - 8th) or single subject (secondary school) teaching credential offered by the State of California to teach preschool, elementary, middle, and high school students in a California public school. These programs are postbaccalaureate, offered at the graduate level, and are accredited by the CCTC (California Commission on Teacher Credentialing). The Teacher Education Department offers a Teaching Credential only option (in multiple or single subject) or a Teaching Credential plus a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. For experienced teachers, a Reading and Literacy Leadership Specialist Credential program with a Master of Arts in Multilingual and Multicultural Literacy Education degree has a prospective launch in Fall 2023. Undergraduate pathways to the multiple or single-subject credential are available through ITEP and SAGE programs.

Undergraduate students intending to enter a teaching credential program, should view the Teacher Preparation section of the catalog for more information.