Teaching Fellows Program at Fresno State

Undergraduates participating in the Teaching Fellows Program at Fresno State are paid to work 15 hours per week leading after school enrichment activities. They also attend monthly professional development sessions to develop basic pedagogical skills. Eighty-five percent of the teaching fellows are students of color, virtually matching the demographics of the K-12 students in the Fresno region. Since 1999, when the program began, hundreds of fellows have obtained their teaching credentials and been hired by local schools, often the same ones in which they worked as teaching fellows.