5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Joining Teach for America
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2021
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I am a second year Teach for America corp member/ high school teacher and a pre-med student.
In this video, I will be going over the few things I wish I knew before joining TFA, which could be negative, positive, or neutral, that I wish I could have known earlier.
If you are thinking about TFA, I hope that this video will make you feel a little more informed and prepared; and if you are curious about the reason I chose to do TFA prior to going to medical school, please check out this video: • Gap Year in Service Be...
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I see you wrote this a while ago, but I just wanted to say thanks for the insight. I never did TFA, but my daughter is training in June and leaving in July for two years teaching in Boston, I believe also special ed, at least tentatively. I did, however, teach high school, and I think your analysis is right, not just for TFA, but any first- or second-year teacher who really wants to meet the needs of her students and do the very best she can for them. It is the hardest job in the world.
Appreciate your insight too! Really hope your daughter enjoys her time teaching special ed in Boston!
TFA alum here! Great advice, thank you for sharing and your honesty.
thank you for telling me that it is a graduate program, I had no clue from what they initially told me via handshake
Definitely relate a lot to this! Going through the first year struggle at the moment :')
You got this!!
Thank you so much for this Med! I have my interview soon and I really like seeing videos like this!
Good luck with your interview!
Thanks so much for this!! Definitely taking this into account while weighing my options :)
Very helpful! Thank you for sharing your story!
You did fiercely well here #forceisstrong THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO
Thank you. I am worried about the test. I move to my region in less than a month. I did not pass my Math Praxis. I have three more test to take before I move. This is what I wish I knew before I signed up.
So helpful. Please make more videos about this!
Thank you! This was very informative
Thank you so much for sharing -- great video!
Thank you for telling me that teach for america is a graduate program I was part of americorps.
Am a fellow at Teach for Sierra Leone,I love your inspiring video
Thank you
What was your experience like doing high school special education and how did it differ from your fellow corps members who were also special education assignments vs. general education or other subject placements?
Thank you for being real.
Very informative and well said.
Thank you for this!
very good important vital information thank you
I am considering applying forTFA, but one of the major setbacks that life has dealt out to me was a dead end job right after I got my B.A. in 2014. I have always had my goals of eventually getting my career in teaching, it unfortunately I has to support my family before even continuing my studies. Now I have taken back the reins to my life and have decided to do it. One of the questions I have is that I really don’t have any experience from 2012-2021. I worked in a family restaurant, so all really have is customer service. Fortunately I was a student teacher in my college years, though that was years ago. My question is really based on my time gap that is missing. Hop fully you can give me some insight.
Ruben
Hi Ruben. Thanks for sharing your experience. If your goal is teaching, definitely go for it and apply. The time gap does not matter as much as your passion to teach. I would say though that there may be other routes in becoming a more prepared teacher such as a grad school program you could consider too!
Doing some work in the org. Would love to get some time to chat with you more about this!
Feel free to shoot me an email at oleena628@gmail.com
Interested in applying. Which region did you teach in?
Great word!
I’m already a certified teacher (Physical Education) but I recently moved to a new state that my qualifications are not reciprocated. Do you know if I will only have to take exams or will I still need to do a masters?
Not quite sure since it depends on the state you moved to. I would look it up on the state’s teaching credentialing website
Leena, please guide were you teaching only in the first year?
And of there was any other additional responsibilities on daily basis? Just want to understand for my learning.
I was teaching for two years. The second year was mostly online due to COVID. Other responsibilities would include attending staff meetings, lunch duty, etc. Hope this helps!
In the program do you get paid what a first year teacher would get paid?
Yes. The school/ school district that hires you pays you.
How does Teach for America compare with Urban teachers.
So are you going to need to do a graduate program WHILE doing the TFA program? I was reading through their sight, and it mentions that the only schooling requirement is at least a BA.
Yes BA is required to apply to the program and depending on the region you are assigned to, you may or may not need to do a graduate program to get your teaching credentials.
I've noticed it's all STEM majors. Do I even have a chance as a Poli Sci major? What will they have me teach?
Of course! They certainly need a lot of non-STEM majors. Perhaps the social sciences or English but this will depend on what the school needs at the moment.
My daughter has a BA in Poli sci and is currently a TFA teacher teaching high school English in rural Alabama.
I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL please talk about the out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 teachers that's why we have teacher shortages
Can you elaborate?
@@EMVelez sure. I watched the video and I wish there was more discussion about how an experienced teacher in one state can't simply go teach in another state without a bunch of redundant OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING. I don't want to hear anymore crying from districts about teacher shortages. They did this to themselves. A Harvard mathematics professor would not be able to teach high school math without a bunch of red tape. For what teaching pays a college degree in anything and a cleared criminal background check should be plenty. No more!
Did you do your graduate program through the school you did your undergraduate at?
Nope. It was a different school that works with TFA.
Thanks you for sharing it. I am currently at my first year at Teach For Cambodia, and can you let me know the life lessons that you have learnt at TFA?
Oh wow very cool! I would say I learned a lot about the structural inequities that exist in our system and their impacts on students and families, which takes much more than individual effort to address.
Did you have a decent amount of free time in your first year? Did you struggle with being overworked or burnout while pursuing your master's in education/graduate school program and teaching five times a week?
Great questions. I would say I definitely struggled with balancing the responsibilities of the grad school program and having a full-time teaching job, especially when I just started teaching. Nevertheless, the other corp members are going through the same experiences so community/friends make things easier. We often do lesson planning together and hang out after on weekends. Looking back, I would say I had sufficient free time on some weekdays and at least one day on the weekends but this will vary by person and depends on the school site you are working at too.
Thank you so much for your insight! I also got placed in special ed. What region did you serve in?
Congrats fellow SPED corp member! I am serving in California.
What subjects do Special Ed teachers teach? I’m so not a math fan.
Does teach for America take Foreign teachers ?
What if you already have a teaching license, and in a masters program. Would you still have get in the masters program thru them?
Nope you do not.
I am finishing up my B.S degree in criminal jusitce at UCF and an intership with Orange County sheriffs office.
I love working with kids and the best part about my internship was working with the School resource officers. I was also q crossing guard before this intership
It TFA a good program?
You have such a cool background. I would consider it but also be ready for the unexpected. Maybe try talking to more people who have been through the program with a background similar to yours would help!
Hey it has been well over a year and I wanted to know if you are still with the organization?
No. Teach for America is a 2 year program.
Once accepted, are you able to negotiate salary?
Unfortunately through my experience and what I heard, salary is usually not negotiable as a first year public school teacher.
Do you also have to apply for grad school separately?
You do need to complete an application for formality but it is "mandatory"
@@MedLeena Did you have to take GRE?
this is a program that charge you 10000 in tuition? to let you do your volunteering charitable job as a teacher? wow
and what is the point of this? I thought they give you salary.
so what is the point of this program? what do you get at the end? a certificate? why not just go to regualr school and get your credential with much lower tuition and start teaching?
it is so vague
Yes they give us salary but you have to get your teaching credentials. The organization itself does not get the tuition money and it is the schools that hire us who pay us