• is an accelerated (one year) initial license program.  At the end of 12 months, you will have earned your initial license.  Three months later (at the end of 15 months), you will have earned your Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT-I) degree.

• is a cohort-model program.  Research has shown that students working within a professional learning community via a cohort achieve greater academic success on average than do students who work through academic programs independently.

• is one of five sites in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts involved in a national pilot project with Stanford University researchers, known as the Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium (TPAC).

• supports NSF Teaching Fellows during the practicum (student-teaching) process in an innovative seminar that alternates between face-to-face and online sessions.  These seminars are co-taught by highly trained and experienced program supervisors and supervising practitioners from our partner schools.

• prepares NSF Teaching Fellows to be strong and confident users of emerging technologies in the teaching and learning process.  Upon program completion, you will have created a professional web-based portfolio via TaskStream that you can share with prospective employers, colleagues, parents and students.

• supports NSF Teaching Fellows for four additional years by offering professional development workshops, summer internships and career growth opportunities via our new Teacher Leadership Certificate program, our Mentoring in Action Institute (for school- and district-based mentor teachers and coaches), and our Leading for Learning licensure program (for prospective school principals), just to name a few...

• provides NSF Teaching Fellows an annual stipend of $10,000 for the final four years of the program (total of $40,000)

For NSF Master Teaching Fellows, NSF TEACH! SouthCoast STEM:

• is a cohort-model program.  Research has shown that students working within a professional learning community via a cohort achieve greater academic success on average than do students who work through academic programs independently.

• will serve in leadership role at school or district level while performing action-based research on an identified school or district need

• will serve as a Supervising Practitioner  to an NSF Teaching Fellow and conduct instructional rounds

• supports NSF Master Teaching Fellows for five years by offering professional development workshops, summer internships and career growth opportunities via the Ocean Explorium at New Bedford Seaport, the Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, our Mentoring in Action Institute (for school- and district-based mentor teachers and coaches), and our Leading for Learning licensure program (for prospective school principals), as well as Content Mentor training with our partner, the New Teacher Center, just to name a few...

• provides NSF Master Teaching Fellows an annual stipend of $10,000 for the final four years of the program (total of $40,000)