{"id":652,"date":"2020-01-03T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/2020\/01\/03\/mde-invites-applicants-for-mississippi-teacher-residency-program_20200103\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:50:01","slug":"mde-invites-applicants-for-mississippi-teacher-residency-program_20200103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2020\/01\/03\/mde-invites-applicants-for-mississippi-teacher-residency-program_20200103\/","title":{"rendered":"MDE Invites Applicants for Mississippi Teacher Residency Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: January 3, 2020<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) invites aspiring teachers to apply to be a member of the next cohort of the Mississippi Teacher Residency (MTR) program, which is a two-year commitment that combines coursework and on-the-job training to prepare prospective educators for the teaching profession.&nbsp;<a href=\"\/OTL\/MTR\">Applications for the 2020-21 school year&nbsp;<\/a>will be accepted January 3 through February 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The MTR program is part of a statewide strategy to expand and diversify the teacher pipeline, so that all students have teachers who are well-prepared, appropriately licensed and can serve as role models. It is specifically designed for candidates who want to become a teacher&nbsp;but are not currently enrolled in an educator preparation program.<\/p>\n<p>MTR applicants must have an associate degree or at least 60 college credits from a degree program with a minimum 2.75 grade point average. Men and women of color, veterans from the Armed Forces, and junior college graduates are strongly encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher residents will complete a two-year undergraduate elementary education and special education program while working alongside an experienced teacher mentor in one of four participating districts. The project is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Each MTR Resident will receive a&nbsp;full degree scholarship&nbsp;to a selected MTR-sponsored university; support in Praxis and Foundations of Reading licensure examinations; one-on-one teacher mentors; and ongoing professional development throughout MTR program.<\/p>\n<p>The application can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"\/OTL\/MTR\">https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/OTL\/MTR<\/a>&nbsp;or call <a href=\"tel:601-359-1743\">(601) 359-1743<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 3, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) invites aspiring teachers to apply to be a member of the next cohort of the Mississippi Teacher Residency (MTR) program, which is a two-year commitment that combines coursework and on-the-job training to prepare prospective educators for the teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}