Training
Participants in the program receive intensive pre-service training during the first summer, for which they receive a stipend and tuition waiver. Successful program participants then enroll in master’s degree programs at CUNY colleges and are recommended for New York State alternative certification as a teacher. While pursuing their master’s degrees, candidates teach in New York City public schools and receive the appropriate salary as a New York City teacher.
Participating colleges include: Brooklyn College (math), City College of New York (literacy), Hunter College(math, science and Spanish) and Lehman College (math and science).
Read more about this topic: Teaching Opportunity Program (TOP)
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“The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)
“An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.”
—Maria Montessori (1870–1952)
“I am not a suffragist, nor do I believe in “careers” for women, especially a “career” in factory and mill where most working women have their “careers.” A great responsibility rests upon woman—the training of children. This is her most beautiful task.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)