Honors Senior Teaching
The Senior Teaching Option is intended for selected graduating seniors who are contemplating becoming professional teachers and who wish to gain experience working with an Honors instructor in an interdisciplinary setting. Students wishing to be senior teachers must be bona fide Honors students, have senior classification, and have completed a minimum of 18 UHP credit hours by the teaching semester. You must have either taken the course they wish to co-teach or have taken a seminar with your chosen Master Teacher. Carefully review the pre-application and application procedures for this option. If selected students will complete a prep-semester (not available during summer semesters) and a teaching-semester, both worth 3 credit hours each.
Students interested in senior teaching must start the process when they are second semester sophomores or juniors. Begin by picking a potential Master Teacher who will interview you as a potential senior teacher applicant.
Mandatory Pre-Application Information Sessions
Before filling out an application, students and first-time Master Teachers are required to attend an Information Session that the UHP will offer every semester. The dates, times and location of the next Information Session will be posted on the Upcoming Events page. In this meeting students and faculty will get a better idea of what senior teaching involves in terms of time, commitment and work loads. Faculty and students interested in this option must have attended an Information Session the semester before they submit a course proposal.
Applications and Course Proposal Deadlines
Once you and your Master Teacher have decided to co-teach, complete the Student-Teaching Application. This must accompany the Master Teacher's course proposal, which is submitted to the Honors Curriculum Committee on August 5th (for Spring courses) or December 1st (for Fall courses).
(The applications provided on-line are "fill-able" Word documents. For ease of use begin typing information in the available spaces and/or make selections with the check-boxes, print the form and collect all required signatures.) Once the Curriculum Committee approves the course your Master Teacher will notify you to register for the Senior Teaching Preparation component worth 3 credit hours.
Master Teacher Requirements
Master Teachers are mentors during the the application process, as well as during the preparation and teaching process. They must be aware of all the steps and requirements and advise students on the process, as well as guide them through the preparation requirements to ensure students fulfill all expectations.
First-time Master Teachers, or faculty other than UHP Continuing Faculty members must attend the Mandatory Information Session metioned above. Faculty who agree to be Master Teachers may accept one senior teacher and one prep student per semester due to the time and effort expected in mentoring.
