Math/Science Resident Teacher (M.Ed/Cert fellowship)

Description:

Temple Teacher Residency is an urban teacher education program that prepares highly-motivated individuals with strong science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subject matter knowledge and diverse backgrounds to teach science and mathematics in high-need middle schools in the City of Philadelphia. TTR aims to improve STEM education opportunities and achievement of all middle school students in Philadelphia. 

Resident teachers participate in a year-long apprenticeship alongside a highly successful mentor teacher, eventually working up to taking full responsibility for the mentor teacher’s classes. Residents are in their mentor teacher’s classroom Monday-Thursday, participate in weekly professional development activities on Fridays, and take graduate-level courses some evenings and Saturdays. Residents receive a stipend and tuition award up to $20,000 for the year to help support them while they complete this intensive graduate program.

 

Responsibilities:

- Start in the summer: pre-residency coursework and professional development prepares you for entering urban classrooms in the Fall

- Work in classrooms starting from Day 1 of the school year in the classroom of a highly accomplished mentor teacher

- Residents learn to teach while teaching to learn in a year-long, intensive immersion in urban middle grades

- Attend ongoing professional development opportunities

- Take graduate level courses in evenings and periodic Saturdays

- Complete coursework in following summer

- After completing program, become a professional teacher and teach in Philadelphia schools for three years and receive ongoing support:

- Monthly professional development opportunities during their first two years of teaching

- Coaching from their school-based mentor during their first two years of teaching

- Continued membership in a professional teacher network

 

Qualifications:

- US citizen or permanent resident

- 3.0 GPA (out of 4.0)

- STEM major or minor, or appropriate coursework

- Pass either PRAXIS II Pennsylvania Grades 4-8 Subject Concentration: Mathematics (Test # 5158; minimum score: 173) OR PRAXIS II Pennsylvania Grades 4-8 Subject Concentration: Science (Test # 5159; minimum score: 156)

- Once accepted, must pass state and federal background checks, a TB test, and a child abuse clearance