{"id":10483,"date":"2017-08-16T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2017-08-16T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T22:00:23","slug":"denver-post-story-otero-and-cu-denver-join-forces-to-battle-colorados-rural-teacher-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2017\/08\/16\/denver-post-story-otero-and-cu-denver-join-forces-to-battle-colorados-rural-teacher-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Post Story – Otero and CU-Denver join forces to battle Colorado\u2019s rural teacher shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plan aims to convert students into teachers in schools beyond the urban core<\/h3>\n

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By Monte Whaley<\/a> | mwhaley@denverpost.com<\/a> | The Denver Post \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0August 16, 2017 at 2:48 pm<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
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WIGGINS, CO – APRIL 5: Midde School teachers Stephanie Wujek, left, and Jodi Sauter keep and eye on students in the hall between classes at Wiggins Middle School , on April 5, 2017 in Wiggins, Colorado. Rural areas are having a hard time finding teachers in areas like math and science. (Photo by RJ Sangosti\/The Denver Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Otero Junior College in La Junta and the University of Colorado Denver are launching a partnership that officials hope will help end Colorado\u2019s rural teacher shortage.<\/p>\n

The program will allow students to get a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education that can be finished entirely at OJC\u2019s 1,500-student campus in southeastern Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur primary goal is to educate the teacher-preparation students locally and ideally they will stay in La Junta or in the local area to teach,\u201d CU Denver spokeswoman Emily Williams said.<\/p>\n

Colorado is short nearly 3,000 new teachers, with the scarcity especially bad in rural parts of the state. The shortage is the focus of House Bill 17-1003, which calls for officials to come up with a strategic plan to recruit, prepare and retain teachers.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, Otero students take 60 credits during their first two years to get an associate\u2019s degree. They will then apply for admission to CU Denver with the application fee being waived.<\/p>\n

Students will continue to study on the Lamar campus, taking a combination of education courses offered in-person by Otero and online by UC-D. They will be given teaching internships and student teaching experiences in southern Colorado schools, for a total of 66 credits.<\/p>\n

Students will earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in education and human development and a teaching license from CU Denver, say officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plan aims to convert students into teachers in schools beyond the urban core From:\u00a0http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/08\/16\/colorado-rural-teacher-shortage-otero-cu-denver\/ By Monte Whaley | mwhaley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0August 16, 2017 at 2:48 pm   Otero Junior College in La Junta and the University of Colorado Denver are launching a partnership that officials hope will help end Colorado\u2019s rural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}