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Earn Your MAT and Prepare to Become a Teacher in One Year

Available in districts across the Northeastern US, the NYU Teacher Residency is a one-year, combined residency and online master of arts in teaching (MAT) that prepares you to serve students in diverse classrooms through rigorous practice-based learning.

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Designed for aspiring teachers

Whether you are changing your career or are a new college graduate, this program empowers you to have a profound impact on students, classrooms, schools, and communities. You will earn your MAT and become a teacher in just one year. Best of all, many of these residencies lead to full-time teaching positions at the residency sites.

A safe and effective environment

Within a diverse teaching and learning community unlike any other, you’ll be provided with mentoring, coaching, advising, and moral support to help you learn and grow. It’s one of the many reasons our program received the 2024 AACTE Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity.

Two degree options

Earn a 34-credit MAT in Inclusive Childhood Education or a 30-credit MAT in Secondary Education. Degree option availability varies by residency site location.

You can earn as you learn

Full-day teacher residents can potentially receive compensation and/or benefits from their schools. In addition, some schools may offer or require a postgraduate employment commitment of up to two years.1

Program overview

The NYU Teacher Residency – which received the 2024 AACTE Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity – is a unique, one-year program built on the core beliefs that every child deserves an excellent education and that our diverse schools must have a teaching force that reflects local communities.

If selected by the NYU Teacher Residency, in partnership with districts and charter organizations across the Northeastern US, you’ll be guided through a curriculum with a strong emphasis on cultural responsiveness, special education, literacy, and the education of emergent bilinguals. You’ll also start teaching right away – and applying what you learn through your course work in the classroom.

Admissions milestones

Application launch (August)

Faculty review

Partner school interviews

Partner offer accepted

Deposit due

Classes start
(July)

Why the NYU
Teacher Residency

The NYU Teacher Residency offers a transformative graduate program experience by combining comprehensive instruction from a world-renowned research university with practical, real-world experience through deep partnerships in districts and charter organizations across the Northeastern US that share our goal to enrich teacher preparation. Our resident teachers graduate from the program equipped for the demands of modern teaching and ready to serve all learners.

Want to learn more?

Teaching is a powerful way to make a positive difference. With the NYU Teacher Residency, you’ll be doing exactly that starting on day one – in a community of diverse teacher residents and educators.

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1Compensation, benefits, and post-residency employment commitment are solely determined by the schools and can vary greatly by residency site location.