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)
Famous quotes containing the word training:
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)
“The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful struggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins—mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)