Talk:New York City Teaching Fellows

fellows pay $4000 in about 44 $90 installments

In the longer article I'm not currently writing, it'd be worth mentioning that this breaks down to $2000 per calendar year of taking masters' classes, and assumes that one completes the master's degree in two years. The DoE will continue to pay most of your university tuition if it takes you a third year (as I've been told it takes most Math Immersion candidates), but won't pay after that, and won't pay for credits that aren't required by your master's degree. If you drop out of the fellowship earlier, you're liable for an additional $2000 per year of training you've completed, but not for the full tuition charged by your school. (For schools like City College, that is the full tuition, but not for places like Fordham University.) I can't fit that in phrasing-wise, but it's worth mentioning.

It might also be worth elaborating on what "guaranteed a teaching position" actually entails, and the various mentoring systems in place. And high-impact teaching strategies, and the training curriculum (Guidebook) written by the New Teacher Project, which I think is made up mostly of Teach for America people. -Semisomna 12:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

9 September, 2006 edit

I'm going to do my best to incorporate some of the content from Montdor1's edit into the main article. Just a couple things:

• To the best of my knowledge, the NYCBOE has renamed itself the NYC Dept of Education, and lost at least some of its autonomy. BoE also stood for "Board of Examiners", and that's now been abolished -- note the gradual change in email addresses from @nycboe.net to @schools.nyc.gov. The transitional B licenses you now get through the Teaching Fellows program are state licenses, although they're linked to the university programs Fellows are enrolled in, so you're somewhat stuck in the city until you complete your university coursework. The Initial Certificate fellows end up applying for halfway through their masters' degrees is good anywhere in the state. (It's possible that this is new since they overhauled teacher certification in 2004, eliminating the permanent certificate, and so on.)
• Fellows are not "usually twenty-somethings" -- in Math, at least, more than half of them are older engineers, computer scientists and other bored professionals. It's possible that Elementary Ed and Special Ed have more than their share of younger folk, but even so, numbers should be sourced and cited. I've had numbers about how NYCTF retention is increasing dramatically quoted to me repeatedly -- I need to find out where those come from.
• I think some of the specialization info is more appropriate for another page, but since the teacher certification pages on wikipedia kind of need overhaul, too, it may as well stay here.

-Semisomna 18:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

January 2014 Edit

I changed the section titled "Criticism" to "Placement" since the section discusses the job search process for Fellows. I moved relevant information about the job search process from the "What Is The Fellowship" section to the "Placement" section, added the % of Fellows who found placements this year, updated the stats about placement to be relevant to 2013, and added a reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SharingKnowledge11 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 2 January 2014 (UTC)