New York City Teaching Fellows
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| Founded | 2000 |
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| Headquarters | New York City |
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NYC Department of Education, TNTP |
| Website | www.nycteachingfellows.org |
The NYC Teaching Fellows is an alternative certification program that aims to improve the quality of education in New York City public schools by attracting mid-career professionals, recent graduates, and retirees from all over the country. The program provides teacher training, coursework, and resources. Fellows may be eligible for a fast track into full-time teaching positions in New York City public schools.
The NYC Teaching Fellows program launched in the spring of 2000 as a collaboration between The New Teacher Project (TNTP) and the NYC Department of Education to address the most severe teacher shortage in New York’s public school system in decades. Over the past ten years, NYC Teaching Fellows has become the largest alternative certification program in the country and has provided NYC public schools with over 13,500 new teachers.
Since 2000, the NYC Teaching Fellows program has helped to staff the highest need subject areas in New York City’s highest-need schools. Today, 11% of current teachers in NYC public schools came through the Teaching Fellows program, with 8,800 teachers from the NYC Teaching Fellows program currently teaching NYC public school students as of the 2009-2010 school-year.
As an alternative route to teaching certification, the NYC Teaching Fellows program is designed for individuals with no prior experience teaching in public schools. Rather than completing a traditional teacher education program prior to entering the classroom, Fellows go through an intensive pre-service training program and pursue a partially subsidized master's degree in education while teaching at a New York City public school.
Individuals that are already certified to teach or have extensive coursework in education are not eligible for the Fellowship.
While completing their master's degree, Fellows work under the Transitional B certificate issued by the New York State Department of Education. The Transitional B certificate is issued only to individuals who are enrolled in and remain in good standing with an alternative certification program. For Fellows, this means they must obtain a full-time teaching position at a NYC public school and must be working toward a master's degree in education.
Fellows are required to continue teaching at a NYC public school for the duration of their master's degree, which can take between two and five years to complete. Upon completion of the master's degree, Fellows are eligible to apply for the Initial Certificate with the NewYork State Department of Education. The Initial Certificate allows Fellows to teach anywhere in New York State; however, the NYC Teaching Fellows program encourages Fellows to continue teaching in NYC public schools beyond the duration of the Fellowship.
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