University of California, Davis The UC Davis CTF program has two components. Most MATs spend a portion of their practice teaching at a school with a large population of underrepresented students. Emphasis is placed on pedagogical issues arising in mathematics instruction for underrepresented and minority populations. Undergraduates who are interested in exploring careers in teaching are eligible for CTF support in connection with an internship program in area schools. The internship program encourages undergraduate mathematics majors to learn, first hand, about the opportunities and challenges that teaching entails.
Most interns assume active teaching roles during the course of the program.
In 1994-95, the UC Irvine CTF program supported one mathematics graduate student. The graduate student worked with mathematics teachers at Sherman Indian High School. The Sherman teachers and the CTF graduate student also attended the UC Irvine Mathematics Project institutes. The UC Los Angeles CTF program is designed to encourage undergraduate mathematics majors to pursue a K-12 teaching career. The 5th year consists of a full year's teaching experience under an emergency teaching credential with a parallel seminar on student teaching.