Urban teachers face unique challenges, IndyTeach is about one thing - preparing talented college graduates to become talented urban teachers. IndyTeach is an alternative teacher preparation program unlike any other teacher prep program in Indiana. Christel House Schools and IndyTeach are committed to helping prepare educators to better serve students in poverty.
The IndyTeach apprenticeship is for individuals who received a Bachelor’s degree but did not undergo a traditional teacher certification program at a university. You are a great fit for IndyTeach if you meet these qualifications, and have a passion for education and the drive to serve others.
Initiation
Observation of mentor teacher
Push-in support of students
Assist with centers, morning meeting/advisory, and classroom activities
Portfolio development
Formal Benchmark Defense: Key Stage One - Thanksgiving deadline
Formal Benchmark Defense:Key Stage Two - April 1 deadline
Formal Benchmark Defense: Key Stage Three - End of June deadline
Through the program, apprentice teachers gain invaluable experience in the field of education, while working alongside a mentor teacher. Over the course of a year-long paid apprenticeship, IndyTeach apprentices undergo 3 key stages of transitional development to gain the knowledge and skills of a practicing teacher. Upon completion of the program and passage of the CORE exams, apprentices qualify for an Indiana teacher instructional license.
Applicants must have the desire and willingness to invest meaningfully with students from low income backgrounds to produce both social and academic transformation.
Christel House believes in developing students using a holistic approach that pairs rigorous academic content with social and emotional skills to produce transformational change.
Our aim is not to sort students-- it is to transform them into more intelligent, poised and thoughtful individuals. We’ve not succeeded unless we are producing graduates who are employable, good neighbors, active and concerned citizens who seek to establish positive family relationships.
I joined IndyTeach to maximize a unique opportunity to learn, re-learn, and practice the requisite skills for being a successful & growing student change agent, while being engaged with an organization whose ethos resonates with me. Also, to get my teaching license in secondary mathematics (maybe physics too), and hopefully teach at Christel House Academy.
When I was young, I dreamed of being a teacher, so when I discovered the IndyTeach Apprentice Program, I knew it would offer me a unique opportunity to pursue that dream. Christel House's mission and the hands-on approach of the program intrigued me. I look forward to applying what I learn directly into my work with fellow apprentices, teachers, and students.
Indyteach offered me a great opportunity to receive experience in the classroom, to earn my certification, and to teach the content area I specialize in. The way the program is set up allows me to enter the workforce without taking on any additional loans.
I wanted to join IndyTeach to stop the rising incarceration rates in the United States, the highest in the world. I noticed throughout the many years I worked in criminal defense that the majority of individuals being sent to prison were persons with insufficient educations. My belief is that if I can impact student learning in a positive way, I can help keep them out of prisons and guide them onto a path of becoming productive members of society.
