The Interschool
Teaching Fellows Program

This program is not available for the 2008-2009 academic year.

If you are a teacher in your first or second year of teaching in a New York City independent school, The Interschool Teaching Fellows program is available to you, with your school’s approval.

The Interschool Fellows Program offers teachers in their first or second year of independent school teaching a program of support and guidance led by experienced teachers and administrators. The core of the program is a two-hour evening seminar on Tuesday evenings from late September to mid-March. The purpose of these seminars is to introduce teachers to the independent school community and to the challenges and rewards of the teaching profession.

Sessions are held in different schools and presenters are drawn from a wide pool of veteran teachers who address topics of interest to beginning teachers. In addition, each year the Fellows’ group provides a supportive environment for individual members to share and exchange ideas and information. Topics addressed in the Fellows’ sessions include: lesson planning, developing curriculum, teaching to different learning styles, partnering with parents, classroom use of technology, meeting the needs of a diverse student body, where to seek professional development. One of the highlights of the program is the chance to receive feedback from the program coordinators who observe each Fellow’s class at least once a year.

Established in 1984, the Fellows Program is sponsored by the eight New York independent schools which comprise the Interschool consortium: Brearley, Browning, Chapin, Collegiate, Dalton, Nightingale-Bamford, Spence and Trinity. Any first or second year New York City independent school teacher is eligible to participate in the Fellows Program with his or her schools’ approval.

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Interschool Faculty Diversity Search Staff:
Ann Mellow, Director
Brandie Clarke, Associate
Jaleh Amouzegar, Associate
Alice and Peter Clifton, Consultants