The Fellowship
The NYC Teaching Fellows are people like you - accountants, nurses, recent graduates, chief executives, police officers, secretaries, artists, reporters, and retirees - who have decided to change their lives and teach in the schools that need teachers most. Almost none of them had teaching experience before joining the Fellowship.
Having passed through a rigorous selection process and trained in an intensive pre-service program, over 8,000 of these talented individuals are currently teaching in New York City's public schools. At the same time, each is pursuing his/her own education through a subsidized Master's degree program. Fellows also benefit from
Established in 2000, the Fellowship upholds the conviction that public schools can work, but that they must be staffed and led by people like you, our most talented and accomplished citizens.
Learn more about teaching in New York City as a Fellow!
Application - The Fellowship is now taking applications for its June 2007 program, which will recruit and train new teachers to fill vacancies in September 2007. Apply now!
Admissions - NYCTF is highly selective. Overall, fewer than one in eight applicants will become a Fellow.
Job Search - It is the mission of the Teaching Fellows program to staff the areas with the highest need for teachers. As a result, all candidates should be prepared to teach wherever they are needed most. The NYC Teaching Fellows program will assign each Fellow to a subject area and instructional region. Fellows have the opportunity to express their preferences; however, subject area and region assignments are driven primarily by school needs and by each Fellow's qualifications. The Fellowship works hard to facilitate Fellows' job searches, but it is ultimately the Fellow's responsibility to find a school-level teaching position in his/her assigned subject area and region.
High-need Subject Areas - NYCTF is especially dedicated to recruiting applicants eligible for and interested in teaching one of our high-need subject areas— including bilingual education, ESL, math, science, Spanish, and special education. Admission for a given subject area will depend on the anticipated needs of the schools. If you are interested in teaching one of our high-need subjects, we encourage you to apply.
There is a particularly acute need for qualified math and science teachers. To increase the pool of eligible teachers in these subjects, the Fellowship offers Math Immersion and Science Immersion. If you were a math or science major, you do not need to participate in Immersion in order to qualify to teach math or science.
Pre-service Training - Pre-service training is a key aspect of the Teaching Fellows program, as well as a full-time commitment over seven weeks beginning in June 2007. Training consists of three main components: 1) Master's degree coursework at an assigned university, 2) field placement work, during which Fellows observe and assist experienced New York City teachers in summer school classrooms, and 3) student achievement framework (SAF) sessions, during which Fellows learn key instructional design and classroom management skills from an experienced teacher.
Salary and Benefits - A Fellow earns the same salary and benefits as other New York City teachers once s/he begins teaching in a regular school-level teaching position. Currently, the starting salary for most first-year teachers is $42,512.
Subsidized Master's Degree Program - Each Fellow will matriculate in a subsidized Master's degree program that qualifies him/her for certification in the subject area s/he teaches. The Master's program takes two to three years to complete. Fellows are responsible for some portion of the cost of their Master's degrees to be paid over the course of two years in the form of automatic paycheck deductions. The amount for which June 2007 Fellows will be responsible has not yet been determined. (Each June 2006 Fellow is responsible for $4,000 of the cost of his/her Master's degree.)
Testing Requirements - All Fellows must take and pass the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST) and the appropriate Content Specialty Test (CST) before they can begin teaching. We encourage candidates to wait until they are accepted to the program to register for and take these tests, as the CST a Fellow is required to take corresponds to the subject area s/he is accepted to teach. Fellows should plan to take the tests on February 24, April 14, and/or June 9, 2007, and they are responsible for all associated costs.
Ready to Get Started? - Click here to read about how our application process works.
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