At Teachers College we prepare educators who are passionate, committed, and ready to lead learning in a wide variety of settings. We welcome the opportunity to work with you, whether you are just beginning your journey as a teacher, or you are a seasoned educator considering new professional goals.
Our graduates
- Have the courage and imagination to create learning spaces supporting more socially just schooling in our diverse, pluralistic, democratic society.
- Are prepared to engage in and facilitate conversations across differences, and to
- Grapple with the issues their students are facing both within and outside of the classroom, from economic and racial injustice to climate change.
Our approach
- We prepare all teachers for all children and youth: multi-lingual and immigrant learners; children who experience foster care and/or are unhoused; students with disabilities; racially marginalized families; queer students
- We nurture educators to be responsive to learner and community needs in local and global contexts.
- We prepare teachers to be architects of responsive instruction: planning instruction based on ongoing formative assessment of student learning.
- Our certification programs are clinically rich and build recursively between theory and practice in New York City Public Schools.
We're committed to
- Prepare teachers as intellectuals who weigh evidence and make wise decisions
- Elevate the teaching profession through research and advocacy
- Invest in deep partnerships with schools, communities, and families' needs and funds for knowledge
Highlights
Teacher Preparation for Comprehensive Literacy Instruction
Explore how the tools from educational psychology, special education, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, culturally sustaining pedagogies, and responsive instruction inform our preparation of teachers and school leaders. Effective Literacy Instruction Varies Across Different Learners, & Other Expert Insights
Welcoming Multilingual Newcomers into the Classroom
Dr. Creider introduces mindsets and skill sets for understanding language learning, considering the relationship between trauma and learning, and identifying concrete teacher practices and classroom tools that can support language learning, particularly for newcomers in a general education context. (Watch the whole series.)