Framingham Teacher Residency AmeriCorps Program - Framingham State

A teacher residency consists of a rigorous full-year classroom apprenticeship for pre-service teachers with academic coursework that is closely aligned with such classroom experiences. In this type of program, Teacher Residents learn how to teach by working for an entire year alongside a highly trained, supported mentor teacher in the school district where the resident will eventually work. Teacher Residency programs require that candidates commit to teaching in the school for a minimum of three years.

The Framingham Teacher Residency Program is recruiting 20 residents who will serve as Resident Teachers during their service year and will focus on improving student engagement in the short term, with the intentional goal of longer-range outcomes of decreased absenteeism and increased academic achievement. The Residents will be paired with selected mentor teachers to plan and teach lessons and mini-lessons, facilitate small-group classroom activities and large-group discussions, assist students individually, grade and comment on individual student work, carry out classroom administrative duties, and communicate with students’ families. Each Resident will gradually take on full responsibility for teaching 75%-80% of their mentor’s classes by the end of their residency, and will thereby earn Massachusetts teacher licensure in specific subject areas such as Math, Science, History, English, or World Languages for grades 5-12, in accordance with DESE requirements, with training and supervision from FSU faculty.