Teacher Academy at Brooklyn College
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Programs
Peer
Led Team Learning The
Humanities Education
Schools
About
the Director Contacts
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Admissions Criteria/Process
Teacher
Academy at CUNY
Application
Process
Apply
to the Teacher Academy at Brooklyn College through the CUNY
Teacher Academy Portal. Online application materials are
available on the main CUNY TA website.
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APPLY
NOW at www.cuny.edu/apply.
The Teacher Academy is still accepting freshman
applications. Applicants can list up to three campus
choices on The Teacher Academy application. |
The
Academic Programs
The
Teacher Academy at Brooklyn College is a collaboration between the
School
of Education and the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Teacher
Academy students may major in Biology,
Chemistry,
Geology
or Mathematics Education
at Brooklyn College. The Teacher Academy is a supportive learning environment, which helps students develop the
necessary habits of study and time management and the problem solving
skills essential for success. The faculties in education, mathematics,
the sciences and the humanities have collaborated on program design.
Peer
Led Team Learning
All students participate in
Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL) academic
support groups for major gateway courses such as introductory calculus,
biology, geology, chemistry and physics.
In the Peer Led Team Learning Workshop Model, students who have
done well in the class become guides and mentors to small groups of
students. These peer-led groups meet weekly to work on carefully
structured problems. PLTL
provides a supportive environment that helps each student build
understanding and study skills.
The
Humanities
In
the freshman year, Teacher Academy
students take special sections of English composition I and II,
which focus on the unique nature of writing in mathematics
and science disciplines.
Students also practice writing in various modes, including
personal reflection, objective observation and critical analysis;
skills essential to educators, scientists and mathematicians.
PLTL workshops for English 1 provide a structure for success
in writing-intensive science majors.
The
program creatively integrates the newly revised Brooklyn
College Core Curriculum. The new core curriculum
includes lower-tier and upper-tier courses.
Teacher Academy students participate in lower-tier courses in Arts
and Literatures and Philosophical
and Social Inquiry. Special
sections of select core courses including; People,
Power and Politics and Knowledge,
Existence and Values, enrich teacher preparation from an
interdisciplinary perspective. A special section of the upper-tier
course, Exploring Global Connections in Education, will be developed for the
Teacher Academy. Students
may elect to take a second upper-tier course from offerings in Exploring
Science or Exploring
Literature. Teacher
Academy students take calculus and introductory geology and chemistry
rather than the lower-tier courses in Scientific Inquiry.
Education
The
Teacher Academy is a branch of the School
of Education housed in Ingersoll Hall, the mathematics and science building at
Brooklyn College. It is guided by the Conceptual
Framework of the School of Education.
Beginning in the Sophomore year, Teacher Academy students take the three-year core sequence of courses required for
New York State certification as teachers of grades 7-12.
In the freshman year, they also take a two-semester sequence in
teaching middle childhood which will allow program completers to apply
for additional certification as teachers of grades 5-9.
Math
and science teacher preparation programs at Brooklyn College are recognized by the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National
Science Teachers Association.
Host
Schools
Throughout the academic year, students spend one day each week in
residence at one of our host schools where they study the culture of
schools and methods of instruction. Our five host schools each represent
models for successful urban middle school structure.
MS 447 is an inclusion school specializing in math, science and expeditionary
learning. The Lennox Academy
is the middle school of a K-8 multi-site campus.
IS 88 is
grouped into three houses, each with its own theme: medical and health;
arts; and media and technology. IS
68 is also divided into three academies: Entrepreneurship
and Law, Urban Planning & Environmental Design, Global, American and
Community Connections. Brooklyn
College Academy is one of the first middle and high schools
to be associated with a college campus.
Faculty
from the five host schools will collaborate with college education
faculty to design experiences and assignments for the Teacher Academy
student interns.
About
the Director
Eleanor Miele
, the director of the Teacher Academy at
Brooklyn College, is an Associate Professor of science education.
She was recently appointed to a named professorship endowed by
Leonard and Claire Tow. She
also serves as program head of the masters programs in Childhood
and Middle Childhood Science Education. Professor Miele earned a
bachelor of science degree in genetics from Cornell University and completed her education in molecular biology at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons. She served on the faculty of the
Columbia University Science Honors Program for gifted high school
students for sixteen years. Professor
Miele works closely with informal science institutions including the American
Museum of Natural History, the New York Hall of Science and the
Wildlife
Conservation Society
in
teacher preparation. She is
co-director of the National Parks of New York Harbor Education Center
and is currently principal investigator on three projects
funded by the National Science Foundation.
Contacts
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Interim
Administrative Director:
Julie Christman
2414a James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951-5000 Ext 1716
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Teacher
Academy Office
2606 James
718-951-5061
Student Advisor: Tamar Levin
tlevin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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Host
School Faculty Liaison
Richard Leide
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718-951-5157
RLeide@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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