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Texas Tech University Grows Howard College Partnership with TechTeach Agreement

By Stacy Gumula, Project Manager

In August of 2018, Texas Tech University and Howard College signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU). An MOU serves as an institutional handshake between the institutions, to work together to make transferring for students easier. To further strengthen this relationship, the institutions then work to develop articulation agreements. Articulation agreements serve as a program-to-program alliance illustrating exact coursework to be completed at the community college. The completed coursework will then seamlessly apply as the student's first two years of their four-year Texas Tech baccalaureate degree.

The TechTeach articulation agreement, signed in February of 2019, works to further ease the process by allowing the final year for Texas Tech for degree holders to earn a bachelor's degree and teaching certification in one calendar year.

TechTeach Across Texas is a clinically intensive, competency-based program designed to prepare teachers who will improve the academic achievement of K-12 students. It features coursework that translates to practical classroom skills and a yearlong residency in a school district co-teaching alongside a skilled mentor teacher. The program also involves the use of state-of-the-art digital technology to record, review and improve instruction.

"This is a great example of how the three institutions – a community college, local school district and university – can work together to address teacher shortages in places far away from urban centers," said Doug Hamman, chair of the Teacher Education Department at Texas Tech.

While attending Howard College, students will complete an Associate of Arts in Teaching degree. The courses completed at Howard College will then transfer with the student into Texas Tech's TechTeach Across Texas educator preparation program, where they will complete all remaining requirements to earn a Bachelor's of Science in Multidisciplinary Studies from Texas Tech University.

 

 

 

 

Representatives from texas tech and howard college group together and position themselves facing inward while standing behind a marble stone structure.

Representatives from Texas Tech University and Howard College attend this historic signing.
 
Bret Hendricks and Cheryl Sparks stand behind a podium side-by-side and smile
TTU College of Education Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Bret Hendricks with Howard College President Cheryl Sparks.