Education Resources

Alternative Teaching Certificate Programs

For students who would like to teach in the public school system there is often the challenge of dealing with the certification requirements within each state’s system. Because of the current teacher shortage, however, many states are offering alternatives for aspiring teachers. This website is an excellent resource to explore your alternatives.

EducationDegree.com is a directory of nationally accredited teacher education programs, including more than 800 Alternative Teacher Certification programs, in a user-friendly search engine.

Charter Schools

Charter Schools offer unique opportunities to be a part of an experiment in learning and teaching. Often charter schools have more freedom in their hiring practices than standard public schools, so they are good targets for those without certification. If you are dedicated to the idea of teaching in the public school system, be sure to consider charter schools as part of your job search. There is a national website that is a good place to begin:
http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/index.htm.

Public School Teaching Programs

Many programs have developed over the past decade to encourage college students to consider teaching in the public school system. Teach for America is probably the most widely known program, but there are many others. Check out the details on some of these programs listed below. You’ll find many more at the Teach-Now website mentioned above. Note: many offer tuition fellowships that allow you to earn a masters degree while part of their programs.

Academy for Urban School Leadership

This Chicago program offers a 12-month residency that includes mentoring, instruction, and placement.

Boston Teacher Residency (BTR)

A one-year urban teacher preparation and certification program developed as part of Boston's aggressive commitment to improving instruction in every classroom. During the 12-month program, Teacher Residents co-teach with a Mentor Teacher in one of Boston's most effective public schools, take coursework facilitated by exceptional teachers and university faculty, and receive $10,000 during their year of service to a school. Teacher Residents earn a Massachusetts Initial Teacher License and a master's degree in education, and work toward dual licensure in Special Education.

Chicago Teaching Fellows

A streamlined application and selection process with the opportunity to pursue an Illinois teaching certificate while receiving a full-time teacher’s salary.

Citizen Schools National Teaching Fellows Program

A service program offering a two-year, leadership development experience, including service as a team leader at a Citizen Schools campus, professional development with a partner organization in the community, and the opportunity for optional enrollment in a pioneering Master's program in out-of-school learning.

DC Teaching Fellows Program
The DC public school system has joined the group of cities wanting to recruit liberal arts students to help in their schools, even without teaching certification.

MATCH Corps

The MATCH [Media and Technology Charter High School] Corps is a new program in which recent college graduates from excellent schools across the country commit one year to public service in exchange for a modest living stipend and housing on the third floor of the MATCH School. Corps members work with four students, tutoring them each for two hours daily. These tutoring sessions offer curricular support as well as help with basic skills, and prepare students for key exams such as the MCAS, SAT, and AP.

Math for America

MfA is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve math education in secondary public schools in the United States by recruiting, training, and retaining outstanding mathematics teachers. Learn more about the MƒA Fellowships in LA, NYC, SD or DC.

Mississippi Teacher Corps

A two-year teaching program that recruits college graduates to teach in "critical-need areas" of Mississippi. The program is one of the most competitive teaching programs in the country, selecting about 10% of all applicants each year. MTC takes only 25 applicants each year. In addition to full pay and benefits, participants receive a full scholarship for a master's degree in education and specialized training for teaching in high poverty, high need areas. Most teachers are placed in the Mississippi Delta. MTC is administered by the University of Mississippi.

The New Teacher Project

This nonprofit is organizing a variety of efforts to improve public education, including getting talented new talent into the schools. Check out their website to learn of a number of interesting programs around the country.

New York City Teaching Fellows Program

This program is designed to encourage a wide variety of candidates to apply for a teaching position within the NYC school system. The NYC Teaching Fellows are recent grads, accountants, nurses, chief executives, police officers, secretaries, artists, reporters, and retirees who have decided to change their lives and teach in the schools that need teachers most.

NU-TEACH

Northwestern University, along with the Chicago public schools, Inner-City Teaching Corps, and the Golden Apple Foundation provides a summer of training, followed by a year of paid classroom teaching that results in a 4-year teaching certificate.

Phoenix Teaching Fellows Program

They hire 40-50 new teachers each year to teach in the Phoenix system, provide paid summer training, a full-time paid position ($32,000-$41,000), and access to a $4000+ Americorps grant for graduate/certification study. They are interested in teachers at all levels who want to teach math, science, language arts, at the elementary level, and special ed.

Project Pipline

A California teacher prep and internship program for single subject and special education teachers. Several municipalities have started programs.

Teach for America

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools, and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Their mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting some of our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.

Teach Kentucky

Teach Kentucky recruits recent graduates from selective national institutions of higher education to teach in Kentucky public schools. Teach Kentucky has forged a strategic partnership with the University of Louisville's College of Education and Human Development, Jefferson and Shelby County Public Schools, and local alumni of the respective universities to fully engage our recruits in the educational, social, and cultural fabric of our community.

Uncommon Schools

Uncommon Schools (Uncommon) is a nonprofit organization that starts and manages outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. Uncommon builds uncommonly great schools by developing and managing philosophically aligned, highly accountable, and geographically linked networks in Brooklyn, NY, Newark, NJ, Rochester, NY, and Troy, NY. Their schools are predicated on standards-based instructional models, proven curricula driven and informed by assessment, and highly structured environments. They are recruiting passionate, talented, and driven professionals to teach in their schools and work within the organization.

Private School Internship Programs (one-year or two-year apprenticeships and summer teaching positions)

A number of independent schools sponsor one-year or two-year teaching apprenticeships and summer teaching positions. There is no formal list available of all the programs, so if you are interested in such an option you may want to conduct your own study. Our initial survey of programs is listed here and will expand as we gather more information. Schools that have Williams alumni in their faculty are indicated with +.

Teaching fellowships may not be updated until mid year, so check back often for updates, however, all the schools on this list have established programs.

School Location
Berwick Academy ME
+Brearley School, The NYC
Brookwood School MA
+Choate Rosemary Hall CT
College Preparatory School, The CA
Conserve School Graduate Fellowship in Environmental
Education		 WI
Culver Academies IN
Eagle Rock School CO
+Emma Willard School (pdf document) NY
Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo Brazil
Exploration Summer Program MA
Fox River Country Day School IL
Friends' School CO
+Gilman School MD
+Greenhill School TX
+Greenwich Country Day School CT
+Groton School MA
+Hackley School NY
Hawken School OH
HAEF (Athens College & Psychico College) Greece
High Mountain Institute CO
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School GA
+Hotchkiss School, The CT
Kents Hill School ME
Learning Project Elementary School, The MA
+Chewonki Semester School ME
+Milton Academy MA
+New Canaan Country School CT
New Teachers Collaborative MA
+Northfield Mount Hermon School MA
+Park School of Baltimore, The MD
Park School, The MA
+Pear Tree Point School CT
+Peck School NJ
+Phillips Academy-Andover MA
+Phillips Exeter Academy NH
+Phillips Exeter Summer School NH
Phillips Brooks School CA
+Pike School, The MA
Punahou School HI
Putney School VT
Redwood Day School CA
+St. Andrew’s Episcopal School MD
+St. Mark’s School MA
+St. Paul’s School NH
+St. Stephen’s School Rome, Italy
+Shady Hill School MA
Stanley British Primary School CO
+Stanwich School, The CT
+Tabor Academy MA
+Taft School, The CT
+Town School, The NYC
University Child Development School WA
Verde Valley School AZ
+Vermont Academy VT
Western Reserve Academy (Job description attached - pdf.) OH
+Wilmington Friends School DE
Woodberry Forest School VA

On-Campus Recruiting

Every year a number of schools list opportunities in education with the Office of Career Counseling and visit campus to talk about the opportunities at their schools. They also conduct interviews at Williams, both for full-time teaching positions and summer teaching posts. Keep a lookout on the Route 2 System for the latest schedule of visitors. Also, several teacher placement agencies visit campus to alert students to their services.

Teacher Placement Services

Placement agencies are private firms hired primarily by independent schools to find good candidates for internship, teaching, and administrative positions. In most cases, these firms profit from fees they charge their school clientele. Few of them charge a fee to the candidates seeking domestic (US) positions, however, many that focus on international teaching positions do charge a fee. The list below is comprehensive and Williams does not endorse any one more than the other, however, those marked with an asterisk (*) have visited campus in the past, and therefore, we have some more specific knowledge of their services. Feel free to ask John Noble about our history with the firm.

Cal / West Educators Placement

Specializing in the placement of permanent teachers and administrators in independent and private schools throughout California.

Campjobs.com

If you're interested in working in education, check out this site that has a database of summer camp jobs posted by overnight camps, day camps, special needs camps, sports camps, teen tours, arts camps and more.

Campstaff.com

Yes, it's all about summer camp counseling, but an excellent way to get related experience for future teachers, especially for first-year students.

*Carney Sandoe & Associates

Providing faculty and administrator recruitment, leadership executive search, and strategic consulting services to independent and like-kind schools since 1977. They have visited Williasm on a regular basis over the years and helped many students find positions.

Education Group

Nationwide placement, searches, consulting, and initiatives for faculty and staff diversity.

*Educator's Ally Inc.

Search and placement service for teachers and administrators in the greater New York/Connecticut area. They have visited Williams on a regular basis over the years and helped many students find positions.

*Flood Educational Services

Richard Flood '57 is a former headmaster and now director of a placement agency that helps seniors find entry-level jobs in independent schools around the country, especially in the northeast. He particularly likes to work with Williams candidates. To find out more about his serice, please e-mail him at dfes@sbcglobal.net.

Independent School Placement

Personalized recruitment of administrators and teachers for independent schools in the Greater New York City area.

Independent Thinking

Placement and retained search services for school leaders--heads and other administrators. Consulting services include development, admissions, business and other program assessments, mentoring services, board development and strategic planning.

Manhattan Placements

Placement company for teachers, administrators, and department heads serving New York and New Jersey independent schools.

*Search Associates - International Internship Program and School Placement

Has worked with Williams College for many years, successfully placing several students each year into international schools all over the world. This organization charges a fee to the student for processing application materials overseas.

Southern Teachers Agency

Southern Teachers Agency, the oldest independent teacher placement service in America, has connected teachers and administrators to positions in independent schools in the South since 1902.

Strategenius.org

Stratégenius.org assists schools in taking leadership in diversity by cultivating, recruiting, screening and placing faculty and administrators of color, and creates programs to develop more trustees of color.

Teachers-Teachers.com

Teachers-Teachers.com is a national online teacher placement service that provides schools access to thousands of current teacher resumes.

Teaching Abroad

Students interested in teaching abroad have a number of options to explore. There are opportunities to teach English in many different countries as well as teaching high school subjects in the many international schools around the world. Williams students have found the following resources a valuable place to begin when considering a year or two abroad:

Job Listings and Other Resources

More OCC Resources

Some other resources you can find at OCC are catalogues and videos from private schools and many books, including:

John Noble

Director

E-mail Mr. Noble

John works with students who are undecided about which career path to follow. He also specializes in careers in teaching and education.