Team Success
The teaching profession requires individuals who have a profound and real understanding of the issues affecting schools. The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education has launched Team Success, an initiative that allows NYU students to have a hands-on, enriching experience in New York City Public Schools at the elementary and middle school levels.
In this program, graduate students work as literacy and/or math Instructional Mediators using research-based techniques. Instructional Mediators are committed to a twenty-hour weekly schedule. They use assessment and evaluation tools to target their efforts and to provide an appropriate approach to meet each student's skill level. The Instructional Mediators find that Team Success is a very rewarding experience.
The impact of Team Success has been dramatic
Test results have shown significant increases in reading levels. Teachers have also reported positive changes in students' attitudes toward schoolwork and the learning process. The role of Instructional Mediators in Team Success has been crucial. The program has helped to bring about change for over 6,000 New York City Public School students
Metro Center Instructional Mediators are uniquely qualified to work in schools
Our Instructional Mediators attend monthly seminars where they meet to discuss individual situations pertaining to their schools, share information, and receive staff development and training in tutoring methodology, "Best Practices" in teaching and tutoring, and child development and its implications.
The Instructional Mediators are graduate students, primarily from the School of Education, but also include students from the Wagner School of Public Service, the Tisch School of the Arts and the Graduate School of Arts and Science.
NYU graduate students work in public, elementary, and middle schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan. Instructional Mediators provide one-on-one tutoring and small group instruction. They are involved with assessment and evaluation and communicate closely with their students' teachers regarding progress and performance