Partners
We are grateful for the participation of our school partners who make PDP possible. By welcoming methods courses and student teaching cohorts, SUNY Buffalo State faculty and teacher candidates become members of the school community who seek to support the goals and interests of the hosting school. We value our collaboration as we work together to address common challenges in education.
Schools
The SUNY Buffalo State PDP began in 1991 with one school partner. Today, our Consortium includes over 100 school and community agencies with approximately 45 signed agreements each semester. These partners are located in Western New York, New York City, Texas, and across five continents. They include urban, rural, and suburban districts that serve a wide range of P-12 learners.
Our Partner Schools Present and Past (coming soon)
Mentor Teachers
Mentor teachers are very important stakeholders in the PDP Consortium. Their expertise and willingness to host teacher candidates and student teachers in their classrooms make the clinically rich program of SUNY Buffalo State’s PDP possible.
We are grateful to the hundreds of mentor teachers who help candidates develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and dispositions to become effective teachers and welcome all mentor teachers to participate in PDP activities, conferences, and professional development opportunities.
Useful Resources for Mentor Teachers
PDP North America: Maine
IPDP North America: Maine is a workshop-based internship program for Buffalo State teacher candidates in Edgecomb, Maine. Participants will observe classrooms at the Center for Teaching and Learning, collaborate with CTL teachers and students, and learn from school administrators and curricular leaders about their cutting-edge cross-curricular literacy practices.
Teacher Education Alumni
A Bengal Teaches Here is our way of spreading the word about Buffalo State's amazing teacher education graduates who are serving as teachers and administrators in schools across the globe. Graduates all over WNY and beyond show their Bengal pride by displaying the poster on their classroom/office doors and walls. Mentor Teachers who are alumni of SUNY Buffalo State are also encouraged to hang a poster in their classrooms.
Are you Buffalo State Teacher Education Graduate?
- Email PDP to get request a poster.
- Display the poster predominately in your classroom.
- Email PDP with a photo of yourself with the poster.
- We will post it on our A Bengal Teaches Here webpage!