JOINT MATHEMATICS EDUCATION PATHWAY (JMEP)

Application Requirements

Who is eligible to apply for this pathway and when do I apply?

Students apply for this Pathway Fall quarter of their Junior Year.

 

Deadline:

The application deadline for the 2023-2025 JMEP cohort is December 1st, 2022.

 

Supplemental Materials:

  • Autobiographical Statement: 1-2 page limit
    • Prompt: Your autobiographical statement should indicate why you are applying to the program and what you hope to gain from the program.  Please also indicate the development of your teaching interest, your experience (paid or volunteer) related to education, school-age children, and urban schools, and your strengths, skills, or other attributes that are related.
    • Upload Autobiographical Statement in the application form.
  • Junior/Senior Course Planner
    • Students must either download and fill in this Junior/Senior Course Planner or create their own Junior/Senior Course Planner and upload it to their application. This is to ensure they have enough space during their Senior year to successfully complete the necessary education coursework in addition to their major coursework.
    • Upload Junior/Senior Course Planner in the application form.
  • 2 Letters of Recommendation
    • First letter: Written by a mathematics professor from whom you have completed at least one course
    • Second Letter: Written by a mathematics professor or education professor from whom you have completed at least one course, or a K-12 teacher mentor you have worked with and have observed you either teach a lesson or work with small groups of students.
    • Letters of recommendations are submitted separately by the recommender. If you are a recommender, click this link to submit a letter of recommendation by December 1st at 11:59pm.

 

Apply to JMEP

Additional Information

This is a challenging high caliber program. Students applying for this program should have a GPA above a 3.0. We recommend that students take no more than two mathematics courses per quarter while in the program to make adequate room for the required CA credential coursework.

You will be eligible to apply for a NSF Noyce Scholarship. See below.

In addition to the courses within the Math Department and Graduate School of Education, you will need to complete additional requirements set by California. See California Teaching Credential for specific tests and waivers you need to apply for throughout your years at UCLA.

 

Coursework

Please note the following changes for the course outline provided below:

  1. Education 107A will not be offered in the 2022-2023 academic school year. Therefore, students will have to enroll in Education 406 in the 2023-2024 academic school year to meet this requirement.
  2. Education 127 will be offered in the Winter quarter for the 2022-2023 academic school year. If you are planning on enrolling in this course, email jrojas@math.ucla.edu. Please provide your UID and and include which CalTeach courses you have taken/plan to enroll in (i.e. Math 73XP, Math 74XP or Math 75XP)

NSF Noyce Scholarship

The Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, is designed to increase the number and quality of science and math teachers who are prepared to teach in high-need schools throughout the country.

Scholarship/Forgivable Loans are available up to $16,500 for your Senior year.

There are two key requirements for this forgivable loan: (1) that you are a citizen or permanent resident and (2) that you work for two years in a school district that has at least one school that meets specific high-need criteria–exactly the kind of school that the UCLA program works with. The first-year of the service requirement is your resident year in graduate school. During this year you will be working in one of our partner schools, all of which meet the high-need requirements. You do not need to stay in this school for the second year, although most of our students do, so long as the school you go to is in a district where one of the schools in that district meets the “high-need” requirement described in the agreement. These districts are easy to find everywhere in the country.

As a Noyce Scholarship recipient, you will also attend a four-week pre-credential summer program beginning August 10, 2020. During the first week, you will attend professional development seminars at UCLA, followed by three weeks of observation and participation at one of the Graduate School of Education’s partner schools. Details to be confirmed in Winter/Spring Quarter.

For more information about the Noyce Scholarship, please contact Professor Arlene Russell at russell@chem.ucla.edu.

 

Statement:

If you would like to be considered for a Noyce scholarship, you must respond to the following (500 Word limit, typed, double-spaced, 12-point font.) Please describe how your prior life experiences—academic, professional, volunteer, etc.—demonstrate a commitment to serving educationally underrepresented segments of society. If applicable, please discuss ways in which social, economic, or other disadvantages that you have had to overcome have affected your academic opportunities.

Questions

 

 

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