Meet your Instructors
South Texas Transition to Teaching brings teaching experience from each one of our instructors. We strive to bring you the best possible experience in our alternative certification program.
Our professional staff will assist you at all times during your teacher certification process and you will be trained and prepared using the most recent pedagogy and methodology in teaching.
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Gilbert Gomez,
M.Ed. Program Director / Founder |
Gilbert Gomez holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Education. Mr.
Gomez is a Met Life Fellow having been awarded a Fellowship by the American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in 1999.
He has worked as a public school classroom teacher and administrator for
close to 20 years with a major emphasis in Science and Social Studies.
In 1999, Mr. Gomez was hired as the Director of the South Texas Center
for Professional Development of Teachers at the University of Texas -
Pan American. He taught classes in the College of Education as an Adjunct
Professor and in 2002 returned to the public school systems where he has
worked as a Social Studies Coordinator and Science Coordinator for grades
K - 12 in a district of over 35 schools and over 27,000 students.
In 2005 he decided to use his teacher preparation skills to help recruit and train new teachers for the classroom and founded South Texas Transition to Teaching-Alternative Certification Program, a private alternative certification program which brings together the best of his years of classroom and university experiences.
