Yeshiva University participation in a million dollar project, financed partly with Ford Foundation funds, to improve teacher education and meet the critical shortage of teachers was announced today.
Dr. Samuel Belkin, Yeshiva University president, said the unprecedented program will be carried out in cooperation with the New York City Board of Education and seven other school systems to provide opportunities for teacher trainees to “earn while they learn.”
The program, subsidized in part by a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation Fund for the Advancement of Education, will introduce the internship method of training. Prospective teachers will serve as salaried trainees in public and private schools.
The five-year experimental project will start July 15 as the Teaching Fellowship program of Yeshiva University’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Belkin said a “rigidly selected” group of 50 liberal arts graduates would be admitted to the pilot class for study leading to the master’s degree. After an initial training period, the “teaching follows” will be employed in the participating school systems at a salary of $2,000 each, about one-half that of a beginning teacher in most of the school systems.
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