Aspiring Teacher - Summit Learning Teacher Residency
Looking for Aspiring Teachers!!!! Application Deadline is June 2nd!!!.
- Have you always wanted to teach??
- Do you have a passion for educating a diverse population of students??
- Do you believe all students can succeed??
Follow your passion for teaching. The Summit Learning Teacher Residency is currently accepting applications for the 2019-20 cohort.
We’re looking for applicants for a one-year program during which residents are immersed in Summit classrooms while also completing credentialing coursework leading to a California Single Subject Preliminary Teaching Credential.
How does it work?
The Summit Learning Teacher Residency is a one-year program based in the San Francisco Bay Area, during which you are immersed in Summit classrooms four days per week while also completing credentialing coursework leading to a California Single Subject Preliminary Teaching Credential.
In the Summit Learning Teacher Residency, you spend a year learning to:
- Engage students in deeper learning projects where they develop skills, apply content knowledge, and integrate the disciplines in authentic performances tasks.
- Empower students as self-directed learners, helping them develop the habits and skills that lead to academic, professional, and personal success.
- Nurture communities of learners by building meaningful relationships that allow students to grow and thrive.
- Connect instructional decisions and students actions to students’ long-term goals and aspirations.
- Residents in our program are paired with a Cooperating Teacher in Summit Learning school site throughout the Bay Area for a full year, gradually working up to independently teaching one class section for the second semester.
- Residents’ learning experiences and coursework mirror Summit’s personalized learning approach; residents engage in a project-based curriculum that is competency-based, self-directed, and student-centered.
- Residents in our program receive a living stipend, and pay a tuition for the program. More information on the living stipend, tuition and available scholarships can be found here.
Why join Summit Learning Teacher Residency?
The Summit Learning Teacher Residency offers:
- A comprehensive program that deeply integrates the credentialing coursework with the clinical experience.
- A student teaching placement that is deeply integrated in a Summit Learning school site in the Bay Area, CA for four full day each week for the length of the academic year.
- Learning experiences that allow residents to experience personalized learning themselves as students.
- A California Preliminary Single Subject Teaching Credential in English, History/Social Science, Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, or Spanish.
- Daily coaching and support from a Cooperating Teacher, and regular coaching and support from a Mentor (a full-time Summit Learning Teacher Residency faculty member).
- The opportunity to experience and collaborate with a diverse cohort of Teacher Residents.
- Priority hiring for full-time teaching positions at Summit school sites in the year following the residency.
We strive to recruit a diverse cohort. People from all diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. We are committed to including those who come from the same communities in which they will eventually teach. If you are from one of our partner school communities, we especially encourage you to apply.
Spaces are filling up fast so don't hesitate.
- Start Date: July 10, 2019
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area
- Tuition: $10K
Scholarships are available!
Don't miss this AMAZING opportunity to make a difference.
The 2019-20 Application is available, so apply today!
For more information please visit:
or email: residency@summitps.org