diff --git a/docs/docs/deep-dive/optimizers/miprov2.md b/docs/docs/deep-dive/optimizers/miprov2.md
index df6a03e267..9bf6481960 100644
--- a/docs/docs/deep-dive/optimizers/miprov2.md
+++ b/docs/docs/deep-dive/optimizers/miprov2.md
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ evaluate(optimized_program, devset=devset[:])
 | `student`                | `dspy.Module`   | **Required**    | The base program to optimize.                                                                            |
 | `trainset`               | `List[dspy.Example]`  | **Required** | Training dataset which is used to bootstrap few-shot examples and instructions. If a separate `valset` is not specified, 80% of this training set will also be used as a validation set for evaluating new candidate prompts.                                                                    |
 | `valset`               | `List[dspy.Example]`  | Defaults to 80% of trainset | Dataset which is used to evaluate candidate prompts. We recommend using somewhere between 50-500 examples for optimization.                                                                      |
+| `teacher`                | `dspy.Module`   | Defaults to student    | The program to run in order to bootstrap the few-shot examples.                                                                            |
 | `num_trials`            | `int`  | `30`      | Number of optimization trials to run. When `minibatch` is set to `True`, this represents the number of minibatch trials that will be run on batches of size `minibatch_size`. When minibatch is set to `False`, each trial uses a full evaluation on the training set. In both cases, we recommend setting `num_trials` to a *minimum* of .75 x # modules in program x # variables per module (2 if few-shot examples & instructions will both be optimized, 1 in the 0-shot case).        |
 | `minibatch`              | `bool`  | `True`    | Flag to enable evaluating over minibatches of data (instead of the full validation set) for evaluation each trial.                                                           |
 | `minibatch_size`         | `int`  | `25.0`    | Size of minibatches for evaluations.                                                                     |
@@ -216,4 +217,4 @@ These steps are broken down in more detail below:
 3. **Find an Optimized Combination of Few-Shot Examples & Instructions**. Finally, now that we've created these few-shot examples and instructions, we use Bayesian Optimization to choose which set of these would work best for each predictor in our program. This works by running a series of `num_trials` trials, where a new set of prompts are evaluated over our validation set at each trial. This helps the Bayesian Optimizer learn which combination of prompts work best over time. If `minibatch` is set to `True` (which it is by default), then the new set of prompts are only evaluated on a minibatch of size `minibatch_size` at each trial which generally allows for more efficient exploration / exploitation. The best averaging set of prompts is then evaluated on the full validation set every `minibatch_full_eval_steps` get a less noisey performance benchmark. At the end of the optimization process, the LM program with the set of prompts that performed best on the full validation set is returned.
 
 
-For those interested in more details, more information on `MIPROv2` along with a study on `MIPROv2` compared with other DSPy optimizers can be found in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11695). 
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+For those interested in more details, more information on `MIPROv2` along with a study on `MIPROv2` compared with other DSPy optimizers can be found in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11695). 
diff --git a/dspy/teleprompt/mipro_optimizer_v2.py b/dspy/teleprompt/mipro_optimizer_v2.py
index 08ed6ea815..babb03cb75 100644
--- a/dspy/teleprompt/mipro_optimizer_v2.py
+++ b/dspy/teleprompt/mipro_optimizer_v2.py
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ def compile(
         student: Any,
         *,
         trainset: List,
+        teacher: Any = None,
         valset: Optional[List] = None,
         num_trials: int = 30,
         max_bootstrapped_demos: Optional[int] = None,
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ def compile(
         )
 
         # Step 1: Bootstrap few-shot examples
-        demo_candidates = self._bootstrap_fewshot_examples(program, trainset, seed)
+        demo_candidates = self._bootstrap_fewshot_examples(program, trainset, seed, teacher)
 
         # Step 2: Propose instruction candidates
         instruction_candidates = self._propose_instructions(
@@ -368,7 +369,7 @@ def _get_user_confirmation(
         return user_input == "y"
 
     def _bootstrap_fewshot_examples(
-        self, program: Any, trainset: List, seed: int
+        self, program: Any, trainset: List, seed: int, teacher: Any
     ) -> Optional[List]:
         logger.info("\n==> STEP 1: BOOTSTRAP FEWSHOT EXAMPLES <==")
         if self.max_bootstrapped_demos > 0:
@@ -399,6 +400,7 @@ def _bootstrap_fewshot_examples(
                 ),
                 metric=self.metric,
                 max_errors=self.max_errors,
+                teacher=teacher,
                 teacher_settings=self.teacher_settings,
                 seed=seed,
                 metric_threshold=self.metric_threshold,