Indianapolis Teaching Fellows is a partnership between Indianapolis area districts and charter schools, and The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a national nonprofit dedicated to closing the achievement gap by ensuring that high-need students get outstanding teachers. Founded by teachers in 1997, TNTP partners with school districts and states to implement scalable responses to their most acute teacher quality challenges. Since its inception, TNTP has trained or hired approximately 43,000 teachers, benefiting an estimated 7 million students nationwide. It has established more than 75 programs and initiatives in 31 states and published four seminal studies on urban teacher hiring and school staffing.
Marian University has been selected by The New Teacher Project to provide licensing assistance, with the option for a Master of Arts in Teaching degree, to a group of carefully selected degreed professionals who must meet stringent application requirements in order to become teacher candidates.
Requirements
- An undergraduate degree or higher,
- A transcript review,
- Successful passage of both the PRAXIS I and PRAXIS II (subject area) tests.
Upon acceptance, prospective teachers undertake a two-year program that begins with a summer institute and includes a five-semester, structured curriculum designed to give new teachers the knowledge, instructional strategies, classroom management techniques, and dispositions they will need to be successful in the classroom. Classroom-based observations during the school year will focus on delivery of curriculum through instruction, assessment of student learning, and cultural competency.
ITF Courses
To apply for the ITF program, visit the web site at
www.indianapolisteachingfellows.org.
For more information on coursework, contact:
Robert Kitchens, M.A.T.
Director of Indianapolis Teaching Fellows at Marian University
rkitchens@marian.edu
317.955.6091
