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LINDSAY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A South Valley programme is giving radical the accidental to get their teaching credential and master's grade successful a year.
The Lindsay Residency Program is presently accepting applications and looking for aspiring educators.
Isaiah Duran is simply a 7th people teacher astatine Roosevelt Elementary School successful Lindsay.
Although it's his archetypal twelvemonth of teaching, helium says helium walked into the schoolroom prepared for anything.
"This is simply a twelvemonth 1 for me. I don't consciousness similar twelvemonth one. I conscionable consciousness similar I person truthful galore resources going done the program," Duran said.
His assurance came from the Lindsay Residency Program.
It's a one-year program that allows aspiring educators to gain their teaching credentials and master's grade portion getting hands-on acquisition successful the classroom.
"To me, that seemed to beryllium excessively bully to beryllium true. You don't get that accidental anywhere, truthful I jumped close onto that," Duran said.
The residency besides gave Duran a accidental to springiness backmost to the assemblage wherever helium grew up.
He was erstwhile a pupil astatine the schoolhouse wherever helium present teaches. He gave the code during the groundbreaking arsenic a fourth-grade student.
"Just for maine to beryllium capable to thatch successful the assemblage that I'm from was a imagination travel true," Duran said.
Yazmin Martin is the programme coordinator.
She says benefits for residents see a much than $31,000 stipend to assistance with the outgo of living, and the accidental to person authorities and national grants to offset the outgo of tuition.
Each nonmigratory is besides paired with a mentor teacher for the full year.
"Our residents get that people enactment and simultaneously, they volition really beryllium teaching successful the classroom, truthful they volition beryllium applying everything that they learned from the coursework the adjacent time into their teaching practice," Martin said.
Applicants indispensable beryllium dedicated and passionate, indispensable person a bachelor's grade by May, and indispensable beryllium consenting to enactment 4 years pursuing the residency successful Lindsay, Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi Joint oregon Woodlake Unified School District.
For those who person been done the programme similar Duran, helium says it's a invited concern successful the assemblage to beryllium capable to prosecute his imagination of teaching.
"You're going to travel successful and you're going to learn. It's going to beryllium intense, but you're going to larn and erstwhile you're by yourself, you're going to beryllium capable to supply the champion acquisition for your kids," Duran said.
If you'd similar to use to the Lindsay Residency Program, the deadline is Friday, March 22.
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