Urban Teaching Fellowship

THE CENTER SCHOOL
Elaine J. Schwartz, Director 100 West 84th Street, New York, NY 10024
Tel: 212-799-1477 Fax: 212-579-9728 MS 243, Room 310

Interested in Urban Teaching?
Interested in NYC

Consider the Urban Teaching Fellows Program!

• Work full time under the guidance of an experienced mentor teacher in a successful public middle school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
• Collaborate with other staff members.
• Spend a year in New York City.
• Work with a diverse group of students in an innovative and academically challenging environment.
• Earn 6 graduate credits through Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. (Commit to teaching after the fellowship year and you’ll be awarded another 3 credits!)
• Earn an annual stipend of $30,000.00
• No experience or education coursework is required. We are seeking liberal arts and sciences graduates with a desire to learn about teaching in urban settings.

This is NOT the New York City Teaching Fellows.
e-mail urbantfellows243@gmail.com further information.

Please attach additional sheets in addition to your application.  You may answer these questions separately or write a single essay which touches on all of them.  Feel free to include any additional information that will help us to know you better, but brief responses are sufficient.

1. Why are you interested in public urban education?
2. What skills and interests will you bring to this fellowship?
3. What qualities do you think are most important to a good teacher?
4. What do you expect to be the greatest challenges for you as a middle school teaching fellow?
5. Describe your long-term career goals and how you plan to achieve them.
6. What else should we know about you?
7. If you do not participate in this program next year, what will you do?