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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
TFA, on the other hand, pulls heavily from the Ivy league and other top tier schools. They seem to attract and select very bright candidates, and they seem to have a rigorous selection process. The five week training course might be pretty skimpy, but in many schools where they take TFA candidates, the administration will frequently hire people will no education training at all if they can qualify for a provisional certificate. The turnover of fully certified teachers at the schools is usually very high.
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I have a lot of friends from college who decided to do TFA--not because they actually wanted to teach (my college does not have an undergrad education program), but because they weren't ready to go straight to law/medical/graduate school and figured that they could do that to pass the time for a year or two. None of them were even considering teaching for their careers.
The people who did NYCTF were usually committed to teaching for at least 5 years, if not for their entire careers.
I have a family "frenemy" who is a teacher here in NYC. She's annoying as hell and I can't freaking stand her, but she did have a really good point in that the teachers at her school who did TFA tend to be very very smart, but really didn't learn how to impart that knowledge to others. Plus, since they didn't go to school for education, they didn't feel as invested in their jobs as someone who did do an Elementary Ed program.