The Jacksonville Teacher Residency Program provides an immersive, year-long internship for recruiting and preparing teachers for urban STEM classrooms. This presentation focuses on how the JTR program helps prepare teachers for identifying and meeting the needs of advanced learners in diverse classrooms. A key component of the success of JTR is the collaboration between university and school district partners.

1. Jacksonville Teacher
Residency
Hope E. Wilson, University of North Florida
Ashley Sarra, Duval County Public Schools
Jennifer Taylor, Duval County Public Schools

2. Jacksonville Teacher Residency: NAGC 2020
Summary
The Jacksonville Teacher Residency Program provides an immersive, year-long
internship for recruiting and preparing teachers for urban STEM classrooms.
This presentation focuses on how the JTR program helps prepare teachers for
identifying and meeting the needs of advanced learners in diverse classrooms.
A key component of the success of JTR is the collaboration between university
and school district partners.

3. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Overview of Program

4. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Program Overview
• 1 year Program
• Full Time Residency
• Masters of Arts In Teaching
• Certification for Licensure
• 30 University Credits
• Funded Through Grants: Americorps, Noyce NSF, Local Funding
• Living Stipend for Residents
• Tuition and Books
• 3 year Commitment to Teach in Urban School District

5. Benefits of Program
• Embedded in Schools
• Urban Contexts
• Funded Education for
Professionals
• Focus on STEM, Teacher
Inquiry, and Culturally Relevant
Pedagogy

6. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Teacher Preparation

7. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Teacher Preparation
• Teacher Inquiry and Action Research Projects
• Meet Florida Educator Accomplished Practices
• Classroom Environment, Assessment, Instruction, etc.
• Matched with Successful Mentor Teacher in PDS
• Placed with a Variety of Levels of Students
• Standard, Inclusion, AP/IB

8. Teacher Preparation Outcomes
• Licensure
• 100% pass rate on Teacher
Certification Exams
• High Levels of Retention in
Profession (after 3 year
commitment)
• Successful at meeting the high
level demands of teaching in
today’s contexts

9. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Gifted and Advanced
Learners

10. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Gifted and Advanced Learners
• Gifted Learners identified, but not well served in the urban schools
• JTR residents work with small groups
• Identified students in all sections that were working above the norm
• REALLY local “identification”
• Worked on “case studies” of underachieving students
• Differentiated instruction and support for learners

11. Gifted Learner Profiles
• Lack of Background Knowledge
for Advanced Courses
• Lack of Peer Support
• Identified and Unidentified
Learning Disorders
• Lack of Prior School Success

12. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Research
Findings

13. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Research Findings
Students in classes with JTR residents have higher academic self-
concept and achievement.

14. Research Findings
• 7 Years Implementation
• Higher Pass Rate Across All
Exams
• Equal or Higher Rates of Growth
in All Content Areas
• Increases in Academic Self-
Concept

15. Future Analyses
• Resident Changes in
• Teacher Self-Efficacy
• Classroom Management Strategies
• Understandings of Culturally
Relevant Pedagogy
• Follow Up with Alumni
• Student Achievement
• Evaluation Scores
• Case Studies of Gifted Children
in Urban Contexts
• Underachieving
• High Achieving

16. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Follow Up &
Questions

17. Jacksonville Teacher Residency
Gifted and Advanced Learners
Dr. Hope E. Wilson
Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Department
University of North Florida
hope.e.wilson@unf.edu