Teaching program of Psychology in California State University Northridge
Teacher Intern Program (TIP) Graduate Student Teaching Opportunity The Department of Psychology is committed to training psychology graduate students as college instructors. For over 35 years, the Department of Psychology has offered graduate students an opportunity to gain experience teaching over one academic school year through the Teacher Intern Program. Second year and Continuing Second year graduate students have the rare opportunity to teach Psychology 150 (as the instructor of record, not as a Teaching assistant) Teacher interns are closely supervised and monitored by the program faculty coordinator. During the first semester of teaching, teacher interns will be assigned one course. Appointments of two sections are occasionally offered, based on enrollment needs. Interns may teach no more than two sections per semester. To be considered into the program, applicants must be current graduates students in good standing in the Psychology Department Master’s program. Returning teacher interns must be graduate students in good standing who have satisfactorily fulfilled the responsibilities of their teaching appointments. Applications for the Teacher Intern Program are available early during the Spring semester for the following academic year.