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Fall 2024 MS Handbook

Winter/Spring 2025 MS Handbook

Dear UCI Mentor Teachers,

Welcome to the Anteater family! We are excited to be partnering with you to prepare UCI preservice teachers for the teaching profession. As mentor teachers, you play a pivotal role in our candidates' growth and development as future educators. Together with your student teacher's university supervisor, our candidates will learn how to apply theory into practice, become more adept at noticing and addressing the diverse assets and needs of the students, and wrestle with complex issues of access and equity in the field of education. I look forward to building a university-school partnership where we can reflect and learn from one another as instructors and practitioners.

On this site, you will find mentor teacher resources, announcements, and upcoming tasks or events. I will regularly update information on the website throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. Please feel free to reach out at any time if you have any questions or comments.

In community,

Evelyn Young

We are the MAT MS Class of 2025!

Meet Your Student Teacher

Our candidates put together a bio slide to share a little about themselves. Please look for your student teacher's slide and get to know their background, hobbies, and aspirations.

MAT Core commitments

Essential to our theory of action is that classrooms are nested inside of schools, that are situated inside of communities, with both shared and unique histories, cultures, norms, and practices. Thus, the organization of courses and field experiences intend to work in a reciprocal fashion to support candidates learning to recognize how classroom contexts are shaped by and shape their local school, district and community contexts and how to identify and draw on the strengths that students bring to bear on their learning from their personal and cultural communities (Bronfenbrenner, 1994; Moll et al., 1992; Zeichner, 2010). At the same time, candidates are challenged to consider how educational systems, through policies and practices, serve to privilege some students and oppress others and perpetuate educational inequities (Berry, 2021; Ladson-Billings, 1999; Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995).

The MAT + Credential Program is designed to address five core commitments:

Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice

We prepare candidates to recognize and disrupt oppressive and racist practices and policies and continually act to humanize the curriculum. We interrogate power hierarchies and privileges associated with various identity markers, in particular gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and language, which are manifested in various aspects of the educational system from policy, structure, to practice. As a program, we draw on research on (in)equity, inclusivity, socio-cultural and critical theories on learning. In solidarity with candidates and communities, we work to transform classrooms into places rooted in love, joy, and equity-centered practices.

Understanding Learners and Learning

We prepare candidates who can attend to and leverage students’ intellectual, social and cultural repertoires and assets to design culturally sustaining learning experiences. Candidates will explore contemporary theories of learning and development, while also observing and reflecting on those theories in context.

Teaching and Learning In and Across Content Areas

We strive to prepare candidates to teach in the content areas in ways that disrupt and expand historically settled notions of disciplinary boundaries and what counts as knowledge and ways of knowing. We support candidates’ development of deep understanding of the disciplines as well as research-based pedagogy unique to each discipline. Candidates learn discipline specific as well as interdisciplinary practices for teaching in and across content areas.

Learning from Teaching

We prepare candidates to develop dispositions and practices to continuously learn in and from teaching, by interrogating their own positionality, histories and identities and the socio-political histories of the disciplines and education broadly. Candidates learn to systematically and collaboratively inquire about problems of practice, make informed decisions using multiple forms of evidence and adopt critical lenses to interrogate educational practices that perpetuate inequities.

Leadership and Agency

We prepare candidates to be agents of change, working toward a more just society through collaborative efforts in classrooms, school sites, districts, and communities. We encourage candidates to become the next generation of teacher leaders who can inspire and empower fellow educators. Candidates begin to learn to use their agency to navigate the political landscapes of educational environments to center students and their right to learn and be heard at the core of their improvement work.

bilingual authorization Program

Bilingual Candidates

MAT BAP candidates use their biliteracy to support students who are learning in two languages. Candidates take the same courses as the MAT candidates, with an additional course focused on dual language theory and pedagogy. BAP candidates are placed in a dual immersion K-6 classroom throughout the year.

For questions related to the Bilingual Authorization Program, contact the BAP Coordinator, Susan Guilfoyle at sguilfoly@uci.edu.

Mentor Teacher Fall Info Session

I would like to invite you to the Mentor Teacher Information Session in August. For returning UCI mentor teachers, this session is optional, but highly recommended as many of the student teaching forms have changed. For mentor teachers who are new to UCI, this session is required in order to familiarize you to the expectations of our program. For first-time mentor teachers, this session is also required, and it will count toward the 10 hours of professional development as required by the CTC. Please RSVP for the Mentor Teacher Info Session in the MT Survey link by Monday, Aug. 19.

Zoom Link to Fall MT Orientation

MT Survey

Mentor Teacher winter Info Session

If you are a first-time MT or new to UCI, please join me for an Mentor Teacher Orientation on Zoom on either Tues., 1/7 or Wed., 1/15 from 4-5 pm. I will go over important program information and MT/ST expectations. Returning MTs are also welcome to attend if you would like to keep abreast of any changes or if you would simply like to stay connected. New mentor teachers are required by the CTC to acquire 10 hours of PD. Attendance at the orientation will count toward 2 hours of your PD. Attendees will also receive a $10 Amazon gift card.

Zoom Link to Winter MT Orientation

MT Profession Development

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) requires that all new mentor teachers engage in 10 hours of professional development on effective mentoring. If you have been a mentor teacher for UCI recently, you are not required to complete these 10 hours. However, we encourage you to engage in modules you find useful for providing support to your student teacher. For all new UCI mentors, 4 of the required hours will be completed through attending a fall orientation and collaborating with UCI supervisors during fall and winter visits. The remaining six hours will be completed through the modules on this website. The amount of time required to complete each module will depend on the way you and your student teacher engage with the suggested activities and resources. Please click on the links below to find PD opportunities.

UCI Mentor Teachers: 10 Hours of Professional Development

The Art of Mentoring Consists of 6 Practices