The Urban Catholic Teacher Corps (UCTC) is a two year post-graduate service program that offers new teachers an opportunity to gain classroom experience in the inner city under the guidance of experienced Catholic school teachers. UCTC members teach full time in Boston's urban Catholic schools and live together in a community house.
The fundamental principles of teaching as service, simple living, community life, and fellowship and spirituality are the cornerstones of the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps. Twelve UCTC volunteers live together in a community house in the urban area of Dorchester, Mass., where they support each other in every aspect of their personal and professional lives. UCTC volunteers are full-time regular classroom teachers during the academic year and take classes during the summers and, at times, during the Fall and Spring.
TO JOIN UCTC, YOU MUST:
- Have student teaching experience in elementary or secondary
education or one year of supervised full-time teaching experience
- Hold a Bachelor's degree
- Commit three summers and two academic years to the Corps
- Want to teach in urban Catholic schools
- Have a commitment to Catholic education
- Desire to live in a faith-based community
UCTC PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE:
- Free housing
- Medical and dental benefits
- a stipend for personal expenses and books (~$10,000 per year)
- tuition remission for graduate courses in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College
- through AmeriCorps, loan forbearance and two educational vouchers to be put towards past educational debt or future educational endeavors
Applicants do not have to be graduates of Boston College to apply to this program nor do they have to be Catholic. UCTC volunteers are recruited in cohorts of six persons who commit themselves to two (2) years of teaching service in Boston's urban Catholic schools. Teaching positions are available in grades PreK-12. The application deadline is January 2.
The opportunity to work towards a Master's degree program in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College is an added benefit of participating in the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps, however, admission to a degree program is not guaranteed. Volunteers must apply separately to a Master's program. The Lynch School application is available online at http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/admission/applying/. Those applying to the Lynch School must take either the Miller Analogies Test or the GRE exam as part of the application process. Please note that the application fee is waived for UCTC applicants-you should not send it in. The graduate school application deadline for Developmental & Educational Psychology and Early Childhood Specialist degrees is January 1 and for most other Master's degrees it is February 1.
UCTC members are expected to work towards a Master's degree in the Lynch School during their time in the program. If candidates are not accepted to the Lynch School or if there are other special circumstances, exceptions can be made.
For more information, please call 617.552.0602, or contact us through email. We look forward to hearing from you.
The Urban Catholic Teacher Corps is a member of the University Consortium for Catholic Education (UCCE). This consortium establishes and supports a collaborative cadre of primarily Catholic colleges and universities as they design and implement graduate teaching service programs, for the purpose of supporting Catholic/Parochial education in the United States. If the UCTC does not meet your specific needs or interests, please consider applying for one of the other UCCE member programs.