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| The Academy for Teacher Excellence Peer Mentor Program |
| The University of Texas at San Antonio and San Antonio College received a Title V grant, The Academy for Teacher Excellence. This grant will allow the two institutions to work together in a collaborative effort to increase the success rates of students majoring IDS specifically Hispanic and Minority students. One effort to ensure the goals of this grant is the establishment of a Peer Mentoring Program. We are excited to introduce The Academy for Teacher Excellence Peer Mentor Program.
Mentoring consists of focused and selected activities that seek to enhance and enrich students’ opportunities to succeed to their educational endeavors. Mentoring activities link students with a mentor who will listen, understand, negotiate, and encourage students to utilize all the resources available to achieve academic and personal success.
Get additional information about becoming a TALC/SAC Mentor |
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Teaching
Academy
Learning Communities (TALC), a
collaborative effort between
University
of
Texas-San Antonio
(UTSA) and San Antonio College (SAC), is looking for UTSA
Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching (ILT) majors to serve as mentors to
San Antonio
College education majors.
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- Why would you want to mentor a SAC student?
- To share your knowledge.
- To enjoy the feeling of making a difference to someone.
- Toshare your experiences at UTSA with a future UTSA student.
- Tohelp foster educational growth.
- Togain great experience and resume building work.
- Tobe monetarily compensated for your time at the end of the semester
As a mentor, you will meet with your mentee at least 10 hours a month at approved SAC/UTSA events AND attend an orientation session.
Mentor Application |
Mentor Contract
For additional information, visit SAC’s TALC website at http://www.accd.edu/sac/talc/mentor.htm
For any questions or to submit your application, please contact Sophie Caldera at (210) 733-2009 or scaldera@accd.edu.
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| SMILE Mentoring |
TALC participants have the opportunity to mentor youths through the SMILE and Communities in Schools projects.
Mentoring is critical to teacher success. Teachers need to understand the functions of mentors in order to solicit their own natural mentors when they are early teachers and to serve as mentors to newer teachers when they have gained more experience. Participation as a mentor in the project will introduce undergraduate students to the importance, roles, and functions of mentors to youth in the schools. We believe that this experience will translate into a better understanding and greater interest in finding and serving as mentors in their professional lives.
Michael Karcher, Ed.D.,Ph.D., Principal Investigator
College of Education and Human Development, UTSA
Students who participate in the SMILE project will receive:
- On-site assistance from Communities in Schools (CIS) Case Managers.Ongoing training and support Guidance on the types of activities and conversations to introduce as mentors
- On-site resources, such as games, college materials, etc., and online e-mailed information about how to initiate, develop, and sustain effective mentoring relationships
| TALC Student Benefits - Tutoring Opportunties |
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| America Read & America Counts - |
The UTSA Office of K-20 Initiatives and Honors Program is recruiting 50 UTSA students to tutor first, second and third graders in reading and middle school students in math.
Tutors spend about 10-15 hours per week working one-on-one or a small group of students whose reading or math skills are below grade level. Tutors receive wages that are higher than regular work-study wages.
While the program is open to all majors, tutor applicants must be eligible for work study at UTSA. Students who do not qualify for work study may apply for tutoring opportunities with 21st Century Project Reconnect.
Part of a national initiative to ensure that every American child can read independently by the third grade, UTSA's America Reads effort was implemented in 1998. Its sister program, America Counts, began the following year.
Applications are available in the K-20 Initiatives office, located at the Downtown Campus in Buena Vista Street Building Room 2.308 or call 210.458.2769 for additional information. |
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| UTeach Preparing Future Teachers |
Teaching can be an extremely rewarding career. You have the possibility of shaping and inspiring the next generation, preparing that generation to meet future challenges. The ability to teach others is a learned skill. It is a myth to think, “Teachers are born to teach.” The obvious implication is that only some can teach and the rest of us can’t. You can teach! Consider accepting this invitation to explore the possibility of teaching science or mathematics in middle school or high school. The UTeach Program at The University of Texas at San Antonio can help you explore this possibility.
UTEACH Program Contact:
Dr. Joe Lazor, Director of UTeach
ph: 210-458-6280
e-mail: joe.lazor@utsa.edu |
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For more information about the TALC program or to get additional information about the programs listed above, please contact:
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