Teaching Fellow: Relay Illinois — Path to Certification

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education award

Training

Job summary

The AmeriCorps Relay Teaching Program Illinois recruits recent graduates and career changers to become teachers in high-need PK-12 schools. Members serve full-time for one or two years, while earning graduate study through Relay and receiving rigorous training, observations, and mentoring to develop classroom mastery and data-driven lessons.

Successful graduates earn teaching certification and may pursue advanced certification or a master's degree after year two; the program emphasizes long-term

Qualifications

• Recent college graduates and career changers are encouraged to apply.
• Participants enroll as graduate students while serving.
• Commitment to teaching in high-need communities.

Responsibilities

• Co-teach lessons with a Resident Advisor
• Assist with small-group interventions
• Help manage the Resident Advisor’s classroom, overseeing transitions and behavioral issues
• Provide post-assessment intervention
• Grade student work
• Work with students’ families
• Teach one class or a component of a class in the Resident Advisor’s room
• Teach one group or team of students in English language arts, math, science, social studies, etc.
• Teach a supplemental academic class, such as math problem-solving, research, liberal arts, etc.
• In elementary classrooms, teach social studies or science lessons
• Lead small-group reading instruction
• Provide supplemental academic assistance to students
• Run an extracurricular activity, such as a book club, sports team, etc
• Assist transitions and routines
• Run homework collection and checking systems
• Monitor study halls and detentions

Job description

The AmeriCorps Relay Teaching Program Illinois recruits recent graduates and career changers to become teachers in high-need PK-12 schools. Members serve full-time for one or two years, while earning graduate study through Relay and receiving rigorous training, observations, and mentoring to develop classroom mastery and data-driven lessons.

Successful graduates earn teaching certification and may pursue advanced certification or a master's degree after year two; the program emphasizes long-term