University fellowship to train new teachers

A new fellowship program will allow Michigan State University to prepare more teachers needed to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics in Michigan's urban schools, MSU announced in a press release.

The program, W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship, provides promising future teachers – who can be recent college graduates or career-changing engineers and scientists – with an intensive master’s degree program in education and places them in hard-to-staff middle and high schools for a minimum of three years. The fellowship will prepare 240 teachers over two years, beginning in 2011.

Other colleges participating in the program include University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University and Wayne State University.

This is great news for districts like DPS. Math and science are key subjects for employment later in life - more new teachers  receiving top notch training will help our kids be better prepared for the workforce.

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