Make a difference in the lives of students who need you.Phoenix Teaching Fellows seeks outstanding professionals and recent college graduates who wish to build a career making a difference in the lives of Phoenix’s children. This highly-selective program is designed to recruit and train socially-driven individuals, like you, who want to give back to our community by becoming teachers in high-need elementary and K-8 public schools in Murphy Elementary School District and Phoenix Elementary School District.
Students with diverse ethnic backgrounds need you: your commitment, your high expectations, and your desire to close the achievement gap.
- Of every 100 white kindergartners across the nation, 93 graduate high school and 65 go on to attend some college.
- Of every 100 Hispanic kindergartners, only 63 graduate high school and 32 go on to attend some college. (US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. March Current Population Surveys, 1971-2001, in ‘The Condition of Education 2002’)
- Less than 1% of Hispanic and Black 8th graders in Arizona scored at Advanced levels on the science portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2005.
- Only 5% of Arizona students perform at Advanced levels in mathematics, according to 2007 NAEP data.
It does not have to be this way. As a Phoenix Teaching Fellow, you can change these statistics for the students in your classroom.
What distinguishes Phoenix Teaching Fellows?
- Accelerated application and training process
- Unique Summer Training Institute that blends practice with instruction
- Opportunity< to train in the school district where you could be teaching in the fall
- Join a distinguished cohort of accomplished, high-quality colleagues who will become a strong professional network
- Customized Induction, Master of Education, and Arizona Certification program created specifically for Teaching Fellows
- Assistance in securing a teaching position
Apply today to take advantage of this program’s unique benefits. The Teaching Fellows program will offer new teachers the opportunity to join this selective accelerated route into the classroom – teaching math, science, special education or language arts/reading.We are no longer accepting applications for the 2008-2009 school year. Please click here to be notified when we begin accepting applications in September for the 2009 cohort.
Brighten Phoenix’s future. Teach. Apply today.
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