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Undergraduate Academic Programs
The teacher education program at IUPUI is titled "Learning to Teach / Teaching to Learn (LTTL)". This program is also referred to as the Teacher Education Program (TEP) or "the Blocks". Once admitted students remain together throughout their professional education experiences, including student teaching. The program requires students to take their professional education courses in a specific sequence. However, although not recommended, students may interrupt their study if the need arises. The LTTL curriculum is integrated so there is a continuous articulation from one sequence of courses to the next. Faculty teaching these classes spend a great deal of time in course planning which helps to eliminate unneeded content repetition. In addition, some of the courses are team taught to provide for maximum content integration. The professional education courses that are part of LTTL are tied closely to specific Professional Development Schools (PDS) in Marion County. These are schools that have entered into a special partnership with the School of Education. Some of the formal coursework as well as all of the field experiences, including student teaching, are conducted at the PDS sites. Local school corporations eagerly hire IUPUI graduates because they have "cutting edge" professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions and are prepared to work in challenging school contexts. Students can make themselves more marketable by adding an area of expertise through our dual license program. IUPUI students like the Learning to Teach/Teaching to Learn program because the professors are excellent; the cohort groups offer helpful support; the children they teach really benefit from their efforts; and they enjoy the professional relationships with mentor teachers and coaches in the schools.
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