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Teachers as Scholars Registration Opens

Teachers as Scholars (TAS) provides scholarly and intellectually engaging, 1-day and 2-day long seminars on a wide variety of topics and content areas for teachers and administrators. See our homepage for more information on how to register for a seminar, or view our seminar list page for more information on the dates…

2024 Princeton Prize for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching

Teacher Prep is excited to announce the 2024 Princeton Prize for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching call for nominations is now open!

Each year since 1959, Princeton University has honored at its Commencement four outstanding New Jersey teachers from public and independent schools for their contributions to the lives of the state…

Integrated Outdoor and Classroom Science Experiences to Support Civic Engagement Among Middle and High School Students

Dr. Jessica Monaghan, Assistant Director of STEM for Teacher Prep, shares her experience integrating outdoor experiential learning in the classroom in NSTA's latest issue of Connected Science Learning. Read, "Integrated Outdoor and Classroom Science Experiences to Support Civic Engagement Among Middle and High School Students" to see how…

NJ Warming Climate: Climate Change Workshop

Dr. Jessica Monaghan, Assistant Director of STEM, joined the New Jersey Warming Climate: Climate Change Workshop hosted by Rutgers University CMSCE to present her interdisciplinary "glocal" (global-local connection) civic engagement project which served as a prompt for discussion about integrating climate change…

Teacher Prep Open House- April 5, 4:30 PM

Teacher Prep's Open House at 41 William St. (in the Press building). Learn more about our courses and Certificate and the option to earn your teaching license through our program.

TPP Field Trip to P-TECH

On Friday, February 10th, TPP hosted a field trip to New Brunswick P-TECH: a unique, urban school where students engage in secondary, higher education, and internships to earn their associate degree in an area of engineering. 

Students shared their appreciation for the event run by Dr. Jessica Monaghan, Assistant Director of…

Fall 2022 Student Teachers

Congratulations to our Fall 2022 Program in Teacher Preparation Student Teachers on completing their student teaching! We held a special celebration to highlight their innovation, perseverance, and ethic of care exhibited during their time in classrooms. Left to Right: Luke Martinez, '22, English Language Arts; Jack Sullivan '22, Social…

102nd NCSS Annual Conference

Social studies Teacher Prep students, (from left to right) Isaac Gradl, Midori Kawaue, Jack Sullivan, Julianna Lee, and Zyan Wynn, travelled to Philadelphia on Saturday, December 3rd for the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference! Dr. Ashley Taylor Jaffee connected with and joined the students for lunch with her…

Teacher Prep welcomes Denise Massari

Teacher Prep welcomes Denise Massari who joined the staff this semester as Assistant Director for World Languages!   Denise will be advising all students interested in teaching world languages and will be developing a new certificate in English as a Second Language.  She will assist teaching in the program’s seminars, and will be…