Creating Partnership: A Vision of Collaboration
Partnership has defined NYU Steinhardt for over a century. Since welcoming our inaugural class of teachers and administrators, our "campus" has evolved into a citywide learning laboratory where faculty and students partner with families and schools, community agencies and cultural institutions, arts organizations and broadcasting companies, to address the challenges and celebrate the triumphs of human development in all its myriad forms-academic, artistic, emotional, and physical. These partnerships are committed to investigating the interaction of culture and human development and to opening new doors to life advancement.
Together we are working to redefine education as a holistic human endeavor, and to re-envision the future - a future in which learning releases the potential of individuals, communities, and institutions for the greater good.
This is the opportunity.
Math for America Newton Fellowship Program
The Math for America Program is an innovative program founded by James Simons, president of Renaissance Technologies Corp.. and aims to help improve math education in the city by supporting the training of math teachers at the university level. Newton Fellows at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development will enroll in a program that emphasizes imersion in schools and communities and development of strong content knowledge. NYU Newton Fellows, where possible, undertake their student teaching in NYU's two dozen "host schools" located in partner neighborhoods on the Lower East Side and East Harlem. Student teachers at these host schools work closely with a cadre of NYU student teachers from mathematics and other disciplines, principals, supervising teachers, health care professionals, and faculty liaisons to become fully immersed in the life of the school. The neighborhood connection helps aspiring teachers take account of the lives of youth outside school and of the important role played in education by families and community-based organizations.
For more information visit: www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/gateway/newton
Gateway Math Education Program
The NYU Gateway Math Education Program is a joint project of the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and its program in Mathematics Education and NYU's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. The NYU Gateway Math Education Program is part of a larger collaboration among NYU, the New York City Department of Education, and the City University of New York. Called the New York City Partnership for Teacher Excellence, this collaboration aims to place high-quality teachers into shortage areas into shortage areas in middle and high schools throughout New York City. The program also helps develop mathematics teacher's abilitity to make math enjoyable and meaninfgul to kids daily lives, as well as, sets high standards for every students -- and gets results. The NYU Gateway Math Education Program offers a variety of financial and academic support to math education students such as, scholarships, intensive summer math institutes, best practices seminars, paid internships as math tutors, student teaching placements in a neighborhood network of middle schools and high schools, membership in a community of mathematicians and educators that keeps on supporting you even after you graduate.
For more information visit: www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/gateway
NYC Partnership for Teacher Excellence (Petrie)
The NYC Partnership for Teacher Excellence brings together The City University of New York (CUNY), New York University (NYU, including the Steinhardt School of Education and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to develop and implement an innovative new model for the preparation and ongoing development of aspiring teachers that better prepares them to be successful in high-needs New York City public schools and equips them with the skills and ongoing support they need to build their careers there. NYU welcomes masters candidates in shortage areas (e.g. math and science) who have accepted scholarships committing them to teaching in a high-needs school for two years. There are several distinctive elements to the Partnership's programs at each university; immersion in "host" public schools, curriculum that closely integrates theory and practice,ongoing support and professional development for graduates, career fairs, partnership events and professional development opportunities for schools.
For more information visit: www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/petrie