I just started looking at these today. Here’s an example.
It seems I’ve barely missed the deadline for most of these programs, so perhaps my questions are moot, but:
Is this the best way to go about earning alternative teaching certification?
I’m a little wary of the claim that I would earn my MA at the end of the program, since the cost of the program is only $6000. Would this MA be a real degree? What I mean by that is, would it be from a college that is taken seriously, and not some junk “university” like the University of Phoenix?
I would imagine that the degree-granting institutions would vary by program, but in NYC (where I am not a teacher, but I’ve had friends who did similar programs), they’re from real, legit institutions. For example, Math for America’s partner institutions in New York are Bard, NYU, and Teacher’s College (affiliated with Columbia, and one of the nation’s leading education schools). I’ve spent fifteen minutes of Googling, trying to find the main New York City Teaching Fellows ‘partner universities,’ and cant’ find it, but the two Fellows I’ve known have gone to different branches of CUNY, which isn’t amazingly prestigious but is a real institution granting degrees with real weight.