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TNTP Teaching Fellows

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TNTP Teaching Fellows reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(90 total reviews)
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44% positive business outlook

TNTP Teaching Fellows has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 90 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TNTP Teaching Fellows employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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90 reviews
5.0
Mar 27, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Just like everything, you get out of it what you put into it. I gave this program my full attention and absolutely loved the experience. From the symposiums to the summer school teaching, every part of the program is intentionally set in place to help a fellow succeed after they "graduate" from ITF. The coaches stay with you after the summer. My coach, Doc Miller, has been an amazing coach, mentor, and great person. I go to Doc for letters of recommendation and for advice when I need it. Doc always takes the time to speak with me and to provide as much assistance as I need. If I could redo my past two years, I would not do anything differently. I felt completely prepared for my actual teaching position.

Cons

The cons are the same as any other job. You have to get up early, arrive on time, be mentally present, etc. The bad reviews I see on Glassdoor seem to be from people who just recently graduated from undergrad and were also realizing what it is like to work in the real world. I feel that the negative reviews stem from people realizing what real life is rather than what ITF did or did not do.

4.0
Oct 17, 2018

Fellow

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good opportunity for graduates

Cons

-long training program -very low pay

1.0
Oct 17, 2018

Traumatizing for Many; Money Wasting; Soul Selling

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Only join this program to receive free training in the summer. Their grading is subjective so do not waste two years to find out that they don’t think you qualify to be a teacher. The price reduction is not worth the added stress.

Cons

BCTR makes this experience more stressful than it has to be, but blames it in you. They have unrealistic expectations. They expect to own all of your time. If you have a family, just don’t. You are better off spending the next two years working full time elsewhere or completing an actual graduate program that isn’t subjectively graded on a single pass/fail basis at the end. There are no grades or transcripts to prove your work. All you have is the voice of your observers. Leadership picks favorites and lets some students redo their formal evaluations until they receive a better score but deny that opportunity to others. They will lead you to believe you are passing and ask you to fork over money for student supplies, transportation, and living expenses for additional weeks of free labor for them just to cut you for something that was resolved on the first day.

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