Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers
"Future Teacher of America"
The Consortium for Minoritites in Teaching Careers is a program designed
to identify, recruit, and prepare high potential pre-college minority
students to enter college and select a career in teaching. The program
began in 1992 and serves twenty-one Baltimore City Public schools: Elementary
- Robert Coleman, George Kelson, Furman Templeton, Coldstream Park, Arlington,
General Wolfe, John Commodore Rogers, Park Heights, Cherry Hill, Patapsco,
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Langston Hughes and Abbottson; Middle - Winston,
William H. Lemmel, Mt. Royal, Pimlico, Arnett Brown, and Chinquapin; and
Senior High - Forest Park, Northwestern, Western, Northern, Frederick
Douglass, Dunbar, Walbrook, Edmonson/Westside and Lake Clifton/Eastern.
Programs of the consortium are designed to provide these students with
college-based academic enrichment experiences, transition to college programs,
enhancement of their academic skills and encourage students to become
teachers.
High School students in the program learn about teaching by providing
instructions to elementary school students. Future teachers are given
opportunities to display leadership abilities in directing elementary
students in following direction, displaying positive behavior and in utilizing
strategies in teaching each subject area by using an Afro-centric content.
The ultimate goal is to expose middle and high school students to the
field of teaching. Elementary students are presented with positive role
models. They are exposed to enrichment and extended experience in social
studies, science, language arts, mathmatics, and computer science. The
student's exposure to the college campus is an important element of the
program.
Parental involvement is an asset in this program. Many parents come
with their children and assist with students' science projects and in
the computer laboratory. The wealth of the program lies in its provision
for poor, inner-city youth to have an opportunity to see and to experience
the joy of helping other people learn. This program is currently booked.
Students participating in the CMTC program.
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