MATCH Corps at UMass (Posted 9-18-2009)
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I'd be interested
in sharing information about the MATCH Corps, an urban education service
year at the MATCH Charter Public Schools in Boston, MA, with any seniors
you may be advising or teaching this semester. MATCH Corps is a highly
selective post-grad fellowship year which pairs Corps members with 5 or 6
individual students in the MATCH High or Middle School. They tutor them
every day 1-on-1 in their classroom subjects, as well as TA-ing classes,
coaching sports, and running extracurriculars.
They also have the option to do a free teacher certification program
during their Corps year, which is why I'm writing specifically to you.
We're looking hardest for math majors who want to spend a few years as
inner-city math teachers. Not normal ones. Unbelievably effective, "no
excuses" teachers.
To that end, we were hoping you'd distribute the following targeted email
to your students in hopes that they'd be interested in doing MATCH Corps
and possibly the teacher training option (should they want to become
rockstar teachers).
Thank you for your help in supporting the MATCH mission!
Sincerely,
Maggie Correia
Please find a description of the program attached.
