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Part-Time Program Helps Working Students Pursue Degree
8/31/2007
 UST School of Education Evening and Part-Time Program for elementary education majors allows students to pursue their undergraduate degrees at night and on weekends while working during the day. The students work specifically with the Helms Community Learning Center, which has been connected to UST for more than 10 years. The School of Education helped create Helms’ Dual Language Magnet Program, which allows both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking children to learn their content subjects in two languages.
Director of the Evening and Part-Time Program Dr. Ginny Torres Rimbau says she is satisfied with the results of the program and is happy that the undergraduate students, most of whom work as teacher aides or have positions in the local school districts, have the opportunity to take what they learn from their jobs and apply it to what they learn in the classroom.
“The program has been very successful,” Torres Rimbau said. “The students who enroll in this program are highly motivated and are able to contribute their expertise and knowledge when they enroll in their professional education courses.”
Teachers at the Helms Community Leaning Center also serve as mentors to current UST undergraduate students as many are UST graduates. Functioning as role models, the mentors make their classrooms available to students for observations. Student teachers also have the opportunity to complete their field experience and practice teaching at the school.
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