Learn to Teach

Working with undergraduates anywhere from freshman year to senior year of college, educational assistants working towards their teaching license, or practicing teachers looking for the opportunity to reset and redefine who they are as an urban educator the Center for Urban Teaching identifies, prepares, and supports top teaching talent for urban classrooms.

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Here’s how we work with you – so you experience success.

Gain exposure. Explore High-Performing Urban Schools

Build your vision for what’s possible in the classroom. Through CfUT’s guided immersion tours, teacher candidates are provided with multiple opportunities to explore and network with great urban teachers and leaders in action.

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UNITE with other urban teachers. Attend the conference

Join together at our annual UNITE Conference with other urban educators for team building, networking opportunities, and breakout sessions focused on high-performance teaching strategies and relationship building.

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Stay Connected. Engage with Your Cohort

Connect with others that share a similar passion and purpose by engaging with a student led chapter on your campus.

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Gain Experience. Teach Summer School

Through our six-week summer school program, you get the opportunity to put theory into practice in an urban classroom and see real results with real kids under the leadership and coaching of experienced and knowledgeable CfUT staff.

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THE CFUT STEPS

TIER 1

Exploratory Steps

  • Views Virtual Immersion Tour
  • Attends Milwaukee Immersion Tour
  • Actively Participates in CfUT Sponsored Event(s)

TIER 2

Invested Steps

  • Attends Chicago Immersion Tour
  • Attends Greater Regional Immersion Tour Hosted in Houston or Baton Rouge
  • Actively Participates in CfUT Sponsored event(s)
  • Teaches in CfUT Summer School (Yr. 1)

TIER 3

Committed Steps

  • Attends Greater Regional Immersion Tour Hosted in Houston or Baton Rouge
  • Actively Participates in CfUT sponsored event(s)
  • Attends New York Immersion Tour
  • Teaches in CfUT Summer School (Yr. 2)

PROGRAM GRADUATION

  • Find your perfect match. Connect with a school that shares your educational beliefs and goals.

    Upon program graduation, CfUT connects you to partner schools with job openings and mentors you through the job selection process to help you decide which of the many job offers you receive is the best fit.

  • Thrive in a job you love. Grow your talent.

    Once you’ve graduated, CfUT follows you from college to the classroom – providing at least two years of ongoing support. Individualized coaching and monthly professional development ensure your continuing success and that of the students you teach.

  • Expand your influence. Explore school leadership.

    Once you’re an experienced alumni of the CfUT program, opportunities await for you to lead others through the summer school leadership development program. A rigorous acceptance process means only the most committed and passionate are invited to carry the CfUT torch into school leadership.