Teacher Corps
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Teacher Corps, whose correct title was the National Teacher Corps, was a program established by the United States Congress in the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve elementary and secondary teaching in predominantly low-income areas.[1]
The program was based on The Metropolitan Milwaukee Teacher Education Program model created by Dr.Martin HabermanCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
A 1974 study examining 20 Teacher Corps projects that began in 1971 found that half involved elementary school children, half secondary school children.[2] While many projects involved inner-city schools, others involved children in rural areas like the Flint Hills of Kansas or Indian reservations.[3]
Before its demise, the Corps enlisted local colleges, public schools and poverty organizations to provide training to future teachers to train them in the cultural and social traits of low income, socially disadvantaged persons to enable them to more effectively teach in the inner city elementary schools.
The interns and their team leaders participated in and developed community involvement activities in the various neighborhoods where their schools were located. They taught full-time, worked on a master's degree full-time, and did community service work to provide enrichment for the children they taught and to enhance the communities they lived in. They modified their curriculum to eliminate deficits and adjustment problems to school caused by social and educational deprivation. The interns and their team leaders created community outreach programs to get the community involved and to bring more community resources into the schools.
The idea of a teachers corps was reestablished as the non-profit organization Teach for America, which receives federal support as an AmeriCorps program. Reestablishing a National Teachers Corps has been suggested by the Democratic Leadership Council.[4] In his 2006 State of the Union address George W. Bush proposed an effort to train more K-12 math and science teachers as part of the American Competitiveness Initiative.
References
- ^ Public Law 89-329 Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, Section 511
- ^ A Study of Teacher Training at Sixth Cycle Teacher Corps Projects Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine , page 54.
- ^ Using an Indian Community in Social Studies Education Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ DLC: Idea of the Week: A National Teachers Corps (July 12, 1999)
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