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Interested in Teaching?

Now is the time to earn your Colorado teaching license and keep it for life!

Teach@Mines offers licensure , a minor in Teaching, a degree in Design Engineering with a STEM Teaching focus area, and an MS in STEM Education to prepare students for teaching careers at any level, from elementary to university-level instruction. Explore the site to learn more about T@M courses, advising, and certification pathways.

Teach@Mines enables Mines students to transfer their STEM expertise to the K-12 context by offering STEM career options as science, math, and computer science teachers. Students learn how to translate the science of teaching, learning, and assessing to formal and informal educational practices. Teach@Mines prepares pre-service STEM teachers to respectfully provide compassionate, ethical, and innovative curriculum and education, resulting in rewarding teaching careers.

Start Your Teaching Journey

Teach@Mines is the first and only program in Colorado that focuses exclusively on training STEM teachers. Our program has been rated as top 5 in Physics Teacher Prep Programs in the nation.

Mines students can choose from 3 different pathways to double their career options. Teach@Mines offers a minor in teaching, a major in Design Engineering with a STEM Teaching Focus, and a Master’s in STEM education with path to licensure.

We offer courses for students to both try out teaching and to prepare to teach (K-12 or college). A person can start on this path at any point in their Mines career as an undergraduate student, graduate student or as a Mines alumni.