What is an Urban Teacher Residency?
Urban Teacher Residencies are district-based teacher education programs that pair master’s-level education content with a rigorous full-year classroom practicum. Building on the medical residency model, Teacher Residencies are based on the best of what we know works in teacher preparation, providing teaching candidates with both the underlying theory of effective teaching and a yearlong, in-school “residency” in which they practice and hone what they have learned alongside an effective veteran teacher in an urban classroom.
