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NYC Teaching Fellowswas founded in 2000 to address and respond to the largest teacher shortage the NYC Department of Education had faced in decades. Since then, the NYC Teaching Fellows program has helped to raise the quality of education in New York City public school's by recruiting, selecting, and training recent college graduates and professionals from other fields to become teachers, while working toward a subsidized Master's degree. Fellowship does not require teaching experience or previous education coursework. From nearly 75,000 applicants over the past five years, NYCTF has provided New York City classrooms with close to 8,000 highly qualified new teachers, more than one-twelfth the number of total teachers currently teaching in NYC Public Schools.

History

In 2000,The New Teacher Project, a national non-profit

Many accepted Fellows have almost no teaching experience, and can be former accountants, nurses, recent college graduates, chief executives, police officers, secretaries, artists, journalists, and retirees. The mission of the program is to recruit highly qualified professionals from their current careers into the teaching profession. Teachers, none of whom are certified nyc teachers, get their master's degree while teaching for the two years of the fellowship. The degree is subsidized (fellows pay $4000 in about 44 $90 installments deducted from their checks). Training begins during seven very intense weeks during the summer, although there is now a mid year program through which some teachers begin in Oct/Nov and others in January.

At this point NYCTF is the source of over one third of all new teachers hired in NYC public schools each year. Overall, Fellows account for approximately 11% of all active teachers citywide. In certain shortage area subjects like math, special education, bilingual education and ESL, Fellows acccount for a far greater percentage of the total teacher population.

External link

• Official site