Teaching Practice

Topic: Teaching, prepared by Kate O’ Brien and Caitlin Dermody

Research & Coursework:

  • Child Development. Carla Horwitz & Nancy Close

  • Language, Literacy and Play. Carla Horwitz & Nancy Close

  • Child Care, Society, & Public Policy. Jessica Sager & Janna Wagner

  • American Education and the Law, William Garfinkel

  • Theory & Practice in Early Childhood Education, Carla Horwitz
  • Contemporary Challenges in Liberal Education, Richard Hersh

Contacts:

Students: Michael Glick

Faculty and staff: Mira Debs, Carla Horwitz, Nancy Close, Janna Wagner

Community leaders: Claudia Merson

Practice:

Clubs, organizations, activities:

  • New Haven REACH
  • PALS
  • Squash Haven
  • Splash and Sprout
  • Hemispheres

Teaching Internships & New Haven Part Time Jobs:

  • Public School Internships (during academic year), Dwight Hall
  • U.S. Grant Summer Program
  • Pathfinder, summer and academic year teaching at Hopkins School with New Haven and Bridgeport middle school students, work alongside teaching mentor. Contact: Errol Saunders (Yale ’06) errol.saunders@gmail.com
  • Summer Buds
  • Community Health Educators
  • Pathways to Science – coordinated by the Office of NH & State Affairs, summer work and year programming for NH, West Haven & Orange middle & high school students
  • Pathways to Arts & Humanities – coordinated by the Office of NH & State Affairs, summer work and year programming for NH middle & high school students

Elsewhere in the US

  • Khan Academy – content intern (Veena Advani ’18)
  • Outward Bound Internships
    • Takes place across the US (locations in California, Colorado, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Florida, North Carolina, etc…..) from May-August, with the chance to continue working in the fall
    • Opportunity to gain skills in leading outdoor education experiences, some internships work specifically with youth in at-risk communities
    • Compensation is usually basic, but room and board is included in addition to a small stipend
    • WFR certification required to begin employment, but not to apply, good physical fitness is required
  • Center for Talented Youth: Work as a teaching assistant or residential assistant for summer educational programs for gifted and talented middle and high school students
    • Locations across the US, compensation is $2800 for the summer, room and board included for residential sites, flights to domestic sites not included
    • Really interesting and thoughtfully taught courses that you can help to teach!
    • End of June-beginning of August
  • Sanborn Western Camps – Work at an adventure camp in Colorado, leading hikes, excursions, horse riding, etc.
    • $2500 compensation for the summer, plus accommodation
    • Should have completed sophomore year in college

International Summer Teaching

Summer Teaching Fellowships:

Post-Graduate Pathways into Teaching

Here is guidance for all states on what it takes to become certified.

1. Teacher training programs (some recently pursued by Yale graduates in Education Studies)

  • STEP (Stanford Teacher Ed)

  • University of Chicago Urban Education Initiative

  • Teacher’s College, Columbia

  • Teaching Fellows at Teacher’s College (TF@TC) – 18 month program, free for science, ESL and Special Education teachers

2. Post-grad single-year fellowship opportunities in Teaching

3. Pathways into teaching with alternative certification

Teach for America

4. Private school placement support – Educator’s Ally, Carney Sandoe

Yale alums who are happy to help advise on private schools:

Emily Pressman, teacher at St. Andrew’s School <epressman@standrews-de.org>

 

5. International Teaching