East Harlem Teaching Resident (24-25)

Resident, East Harlem Teaching Residency (2024-2025)

Position Reports to: Residency Instructional Coach

Start-End Date: Late May 2024 - Mid-August 2025

Hours: Monday - Friday (times vary within the hours from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST)

Application Deadline: The next and last application deadline is Monday, April 1st, 2024.

Snapshot

The East Harlem Teaching Residency is a 14-month program that prepares aspiring teachers through rigorous coursework in Childhood Education at Hunter College School of Education and a 14-month paid residency as an resident teacher at East Harlem Tutorial Program’s Out of School Time & East Harlem Scholars Academies with extensive support and training grounded in antiracist teaching practices. Residents will complete the program with a Master’s degree in Childhood Education Grades 1-6 and initial New York State teaching certification.

Who We Are

East Harlem Scholars Academies are community-based Pre-K to 12 public charter schools operated by  East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP). EHTP began in 1958 as a children's reading group and has since grown into a multi-site after-school program for traditional public school students and a network of public charter schools focused on significantly increasing the college graduation rate in East Harlem. We are on track to serve at least 25% of East Harlem students by 2025, with enrollment for this year at approximately 2200 students in our schools and after school programs. In 2020, 99% of our seniors were accepted to college, and our current scholars in college are on-track to graduate at eight times the national average of their peers.

At EHTP we also aim to serve as an agent of change and thoughtfully contribute to the national fight for racial equity. Through our organization-wide commitment to anti-racism work, we prepare our scholars to effect change, challenge the status quo, and thrive in the world around them. As staff members, we face our own racial identities and conscious and unconscious biases. With this in mind, all of our professional development, curriculum, organizational materials, and processes are designed with a goal of racial justice. Read our racial equity statement here.

We ground all of our work in racial equity, in our core values, and in our four guiding pursuits: the Revolutionary Pursuit of Love, the Radical Pursuit of Knowledge, the Responsive Pursuit of Healing, and in the Relentless Pursuit of Results. These pursuits inform and are reflected in our current four key strategic priorities: to increase high-impact, high-quality academic curriculum, programming content, staff capacity, and coaching; to embrace and advance our use of technology; to deepen our embodiment of ethical and equitable radical humanity; and to efficiently operationalize teaching, learning, community, and care. 

For more information about Scholars Academies, please visit us at www.eastharlemscholars.org.

Hunter College School of Education

Hunter was New York City’s first teacher training program, founded in 1870, and to this day carries on a proud tradition of achievement and commitment to preparing teachers, counselors and administrators in over 40 specializations who make a difference in the lives of children, adolescents and consumers in communities throughout New York City and beyond.  The Hunter College School of Education is dedicated to the preparation of deeply thoughtful, knowledgeable and highly effective teachers, administrators and counselors. Their commitment is to educate future professionals who will make a significant impact on the academic achievement, as well as the intellectual, social and emotional development of their students.  The 2014 National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) review of teacher preparation programs, published by U.S. News & World Report, indicates that the Hunter College School of Education offers the greatest breadth of quality across programs in the mid-Atlantic United States and the highest overall ranking in New York State.

The Work and Why it Matters

The East Harlem Teaching Residency, an EHTP program, in partnership with Hunter College School of Education, is an innovative, cohort-based teacher-training pathway for recent college graduates and career changers that develops, supports, and certifies aspiring educators to become teachers for East Harlem Scholars Academies and the greater East Harlem community. The program aims to improve educational outcomes for East Harlem students and increase the number of highly effective teachers serving East Harlem.

Elementary General Education  Residency

• 14-month teacher preparation program
• $30,000/year salary + subsidized tuition + benefits
• Subsidized master’s degree in Childhood Education from Hunter College
• Support with receiving NYS teaching certification upon completion of the program.
• Student teaching experience with a mentor teacher in a 1st-5th grade classroom at East Harlem Scholars Academies
• Teach in EHTP’s elementary after school program with Residency team coaching and professional development.

As a Teaching Resident you will:

• Enroll in Graduate Coursework
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  • Engage in coursework at Hunter College, both on- and off-site (classes are held during the workday and in the evenings; there may be occasional Saturdays)
  • Complete all requirements for initial teaching certification
• Receive Coaching and Cohort-based Learning Opportunities
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  • Conduct structured observations of and shadow highly effective teachers in Scholars Academies
  • Receive weekly coaching tailored to your needs as an after school teacher
  • Receive cohort-based professional development
  • Engage in ongoing reflection exercises linking theory learned in graduate coursework to actions practiced in the classroom
• Clinical Practice &  Community Engagement
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  • Implement high leverage teaching practices  to teach academic content (i.e. math, ELA, social studies)  to elementary age students in an after school classroom
  • Create a classroom culture that is grounded in antiracist teaching practices that honors and affirms all students lived experiences
  • Build positive relationships with the families of EHTP students through frequent communication about students’ progress and ways that families can support their children’s learning
  • Plan at least one Family Engagement Event for families

Who You Are

• You believe in EHTP’s mission, core values, and racial equity statement
• You are open to exploring your own identity and privilege
• You enjoy working with students, have an a strong desire to become an elementary school teacher , and want to gain valuable classroom experience before beginning your teaching career
• You are committed to teaching in the East Harlem community
• You are open to giving and receiving constructive feedback and are looking for professional growth opportunities consistently
• You value teamwork and are able to work collaboratively with other instructional and support staff members in an effort to best serve your students
• You are able to successfully manage competing priorities
• You have the perseverance to overcome challenges
• You are highly organized and hold yourself to high professional standards
• You possess strong interpersonal communication skills (written and oral)

Eligibility Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree conferred by June 2024
• Preferred minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
  • If you have an undergraduate GPA that falls under a 3.0, you will be required to write a statement explaining 1) any factors that impacted your undergraduate GPA, and 2) the steps you plan to take in order to ensure that you succeed in the Residency program
• A liberal arts or sciences major (or interdisciplinary concentration) of at least 30 credits
• A liberal arts core including the following:
  • a General Education core in the liberal arts and sciences to include artistic expression, communication, information retrieval 
  • concepts in history and social sciences, humanities
  • a language other than English
  • scientific and mathematical processes 
  • written analysis and expression
• U.S. Citizen or National/Permanent Resident status
• Applicants must not have taken more than 18 college credits in education
• Experience working with students a plus, but not required
• Due to the nature of our diverse student population, Arabic, Mandarin or Spanish speaking candidates are highly encouraged to apply

Compensation and Benefits:

• $30,000/year salary
• Choice of fully covered medical benefits, including mental health services or buyout is $2,000
• Partial tuition reimbursement towards Masters’ Degree in Childhood Education
• NYS teaching certification upon completion of program
• Cost of NYSTCE certification exams - (first attempt)
• Paid vacation (aligned with school closings calendar)
• Laptop
• Academic and financial guidance
• Job placement support

Thank you in advance for taking the time to apply to East Harlem Tutorial Program.