Western Kentucky University has recently been awarded a $5.4 million
dollar grant over five years to prepare physics, chemistry, and
mathematics teachers for high schools in Louisville, Kentucky. The
program called "GSkyTeach" is recruiting graduating seniors or recent
graduates with majors in the above three disciplines, but no teacher
preparation.
The program will pay trainees $30,000 plus benefits during
the year of preparation and all tuition costs to earn a Master of Arts in
Teaching degree. At the end of one year of preparation, the graduates
will be employed by the Jefferson County Public Schools at a starting
salary of $42,000. GSkyTeach is an exciting new program very different
from traditional teacher preparation.
For more information, go here.