Office: 1380 Lawrence Street Center, 701
Telephone: 303-315-5001
E-mail: ASPIRE@ucdenver.edu

Overview

The schools in your community need your skills and experience to increase the number of effective teachers in your area. We prepare our candidates to collaborate effectively at all levels - with other teachers and learning specialists, parents, students, administrators, counselors, and community members - in order to facilitate the success of all students.

Aspire to Teach® preparation also includes application of content knowledge, theory, curriculum, assessment, and research as they flexibly and reflectively make decisions that support the success of diverse learners.

Ultimately, our goal is that all candidates—whether elementary teachers, secondary teachers or special educators—will be able to have a significant positive impact in diverse educational school settings and, as teacher leaders, will act with a sense of urgency to support equity in education for all children.

Programs

Faculty

The faculty of the Curriculum and Instruction MA work with educators to adopt a pedagogy that is holistic, experiential, relational and liberatory. Students examine the political nature of schooling and the systemic inequities (social, economic, gender, ethnocultural background, racial geography, etc.) that help create unequal education opportunities for a variety of learners. The program aims to introduce participants to an approach to teaching and learning that moves beyond transmission and mastery of content towards teaching/learning that promotes the practice of freedom, liberation, justice and community.

Faculty:

Erin Bache, MA, University of Colorado Boulder | Senior Instructor

Jennifer Fox, EdD, University of Colorado Denver | Executive Director of ASPIRE to Teach