UTPB honors teacher residency students at pinning ceremony

Yahoo

06-05-2025

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – The University of Texas Permian Basin recently honored eight teacher residency students at a pinning ceremony. According to organizers, this is the first time a ceremony has been held for these students in the five years of the program.
Students in the teacher residency program are employed full-time by a local school district and work in a classroom for two semesters with a mentor teacher.
'UTPB has a teacher residency program that we do,' said Marsha Bridges, the Teacher Education and Teacher Residency Site Coordinator. 'This is the fifth year that we've implemented this program. Teachers start, the school district actually employs them as a teacher resident, and they start at the very beginning. As soon as the teachers are supposed to show up, our teacher residents are there. They help prepare the classroom, help put the routines in place, and they slowly start co-teaching with that mentor teacher. It is a year long program, it's not a typical 16 week program that your regular student teachers do.'
After completing the teacher residency seminar, students are certified and ready to teach in their own classrooms.
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