WHY A TEACHING FELLOWSHIP?
What’s so special about the kind of preparation this program offers?
Some teachers’ preparation, in a traditional education school curriculum, focuses on sitting at a university campus learning about teaching, with only brief exposure to a practicum—“student teaching”—at the end of the program. The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship is designed to provide intensive classroom experience from the beginning, along with content-rich courses that specifically prepare candidates to teach in their fields of expertise. By offering this preparation in the context of a master’s degree program, the Fellowship also enables new teachers to begin their classroom careers with an important and rewarding credential already in hand.