Pathways to Teaching Autism: A Collaborative Project Between WSU College of Education and BGSU School of Intervention Services
Sharon Elliott, principal investigator
FY 2004-2005
$150,000 – Bowling Green State University (PRIME: U.S. Department of Education)

Detroit Urban Systemic Program – Alternative Pathways to Teaching
Sally K. Roberts, principal investigator
FY 2002-2003
$236,679 – Detroit Public Schools (prime: NSF)

Pathways to Urban Teaching for Minority Scholars
Janice Green, principal investigator
FY 2002-2003
$39,772 – Michigan Department of Career Development

Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program – Phase Two
Sharon Elliott, principal investigator
FY 2001-2003
$290,000 – Detroit Public Schools

Mathematics and Science Pathways to Teacher Program
Sally K. Roberts, principal investigator
FY 1999-2003
$953,300 Detroit Public Schools/NSF Urban Systemic Program

Teacher Education

The Project

In response to a national need for minority recruitment and retention in teacher preparation programs, as well as placement of minorities in the K-12 teaching workforce, the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund of New York originally awarded the College of Education Division of Teacher Education a four-year grant (1992-1996) to address these issues locally. In close partnership with the Detroit Public Schools, the project was designed to provide alternative paths to teacher certification within the teacher preparation curriculum. Alternative paths included courses scheduled at times and in locations convenient to the students, cohort groups, monthly cohort meetings, core classes, mentoring, academic tutoring, leadership development, and stipends and tuition support.

Since the original grant, multiple additional grants have allowed the Teacher Education Division to focus attention recruiting teacher candidates in the fields of mathematics, science, and learning disabilities. Minority males and those who are bilingual are additional specialty areas upon which we focused. The grants listed above are those Alternative Pathways to Teaching grants that are active at this time.

Its Impact

• 184 teacher candidates are in process or have completed teacher certification through Alternative Pathways to Teaching programs at WSU.

41 through the original program
37 through Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program
20 through Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program II
29 through Pathways to Certification for Minority Teacher Candidates
10 through Learning Disabilities Pathways to Teaching
47 through Mathematics and Science Pathways to Teaching Program