{"id":27284,"date":"2019-05-16T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27284"},"modified":"2019-05-16T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:59:11","slug":"apsu-cmcss-partner-on-innovative-three-year-residency-and-degree-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/05\/16\/apsu-cmcss-partner-on-innovative-three-year-residency-and-degree-program\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU, CMCSS partner on innovative three-year residency and degree program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Austin<\/a>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University (APSU) says that in 1975, 22 percent of all college students dreamed of becoming teachers. Forty-four years later, that number has plummeted to about 4 percent, prompting the CBS Evening News to recently label the national teacher shortage \u201can education crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University and the Clarskville-Montgomery County School System partner to provide 20 recent high school graduates and 20 CMCSS teacher\u2019s aides with an accelerated, free path to become full-time school system teachers in just three years.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Officials with the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) and the APSU Eriksson College of Education have kept a close eye on the growing crisis, and the two organizations recently formed an innovative partnership to train and keep teachers in this community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been looking at different teacher pipelines to get teachers in the school system, and growing our own was a natural place to go,\u201d Millard House II, CMCSS Director of Schools, said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this spring, the school system and APSU launched the Early Learning Teacher Residence program, which will provide 20 recent high school graduates and 20 CMCSS teacher\u2019s aides with an accelerated, free path to become full-time school system teachers in just three years. The program specifically targets minority and first-generation college students, increasing diversity both within the school system and at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to put them into five of our lower socioeconomic elementary schools, in a lower grade, where they will be mentored by some of the most exemplary teachers we have,\u201d Dr. Sean Impeartrice, CMCSS chief academic officer, said. \u201cThe whole idea of the residency is not providing them one year of student teaching but three years of learning their craft from the very best.\u201d<\/p>\n

These students, known as residents, primarily will be placed in kindergarten through second grade classrooms with a smaller number going to third through fifth grade, where they will help expert instructors teach and lesson plan. These \u201cexpert\u201d teachers will receive an additional stipend for mentoring the residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe residents will learn all aspects of the job, and the teachers and multi-classroom leaders will get extra hands to help out,\u201d Impeartrice said. \u201cIt\u2019s a three-year accelerated program, and in the fourth year, they\u2019ll become a teacher. They\u2019ll be hired. They\u2019ll be guaranteed a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the students are working as residents in five local elementary schools, they\u2019ll pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in education through a newly tailored program at Austin Peay.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cWe\u2019ve taken our four-year program and condensed it to three as part of this program,\u201d Dr. Lisa Barron, director of Teacher Education and Partnerships at APSU, said. \u201cThis cohort will do two eight-week sessions each semester, and when they graduate in three years, they\u2019ll be licensed as a K-5 teacher with a special education endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University and the school system will cover the students\u2019 tuition, and the Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Association will pay for a portion of their books.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are fortunate to have such a great partner like CMCSS to work on common problems in the field,\u201d Dr. Prentice Chandler, dean of the Eriksson College of Education, said. \u201cThe ELTR program addresses both teacher diversity and workforce pipeline issues, problems that impact teacher education nationally. This is what you get when an excellent school district and an excellent university get together to solve problems. We are better together.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, May 24th, 2019 at 2:00pm, both CMCSS and APSU will host a signing day event for this first cohort in Austin Peay State University\u2019s Morgan University Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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