The Teacher Preparation
Advisement Center (TPAC) offers a location for teacher
preparation students to receive advisement and provides students
with a clearer path to degree completion by providing consistent
and accessible advisement year around. The TPAC faculty and
Graduate Peer Advisers will provide academic advisement and
related services for those students pursuing a degree in
teaching at the elementary (Elementary Subject Matter
(ESM)), Special Education, or secondary (Single Subject Matter (SS)) level. The
advisement is related to common elements of the programs across
majors. For ESM & Special Education students the common elements are the core
requirements including general education and graduation
requirements and for Option IV, CSET advisement (for multiple
subjects only). For SS
students the common elements include graduation requirements and
both lower division and upper division general education.
Students seek advisement from the major for the specific breadth
and depth areas from their own department/program which are
listed below.
TPAC is responsible for
coordination of the “early experience” component of the teacher
preparation programs that start as early as the freshman year
for ESM students and usually occur in the junior or senior year
of the SS program.