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What is BCTR?

Winter Program

Since 2002, the Baltimore City Teaching Residency has brought more than 700 new teachers into City Schools. Like many large urban school districts, however, City Schools still faces persistent teacher shortages in the middle of each school year. Often times, schools face unexpected vacancies when teachers retire or take a leave of absence. More often than not, students in these schools are left with a revolving door of substitutes throughout the year. In order to meet the needs of all children in City Schools, the Baltimore City Teaching Residency has been charged to meet one of our city’s greatest challenges – bringing exceptional teachers into our school system after the start of the school year.
These Residents train with our program during January. Some may begin to co-teach in classrooms across the city in February with veteran City Schools teachers while others go into positions immediately.

Placement

It is important to note that placement may look different for Residents accepted into the Winter 2010 program. These Residents may be placed into co-teaching assignments across Baltimore City with a veteran Baltimore City school teacher or immediately fill vacancies within the school district. These assignments will be established with the Resident's preference(s) in mind, but final decisions will be made by the City Schools’ Department of Human Resources based upon a particular school's needs and accessibility to veteran staff.

Because the winter program was created to address specific gaps in classrooms mid-year, job placement for the BCTR 2010 Winter participants is based upon the needs and availability of positions in City Schools. In most circumstances, positions will be available for Residents to begin teaching in February, 2010. However, if a secured position is not available at the mid-year, accepted candidates shall have the automatic option to defer to our Summer 2010 Program. Candidates will be notified on the status of available positions no later than mid-November 2010.

What Can I Teach?

Currently, we are not accepting applications for our 2010 Winter Program. If you are interested in this program, please click here to be one of the first to apply!