About Us
Program Overview

The Baltimore City Teaching Residency is committed to helping outstanding professionals enter the Baltimore City Public School System and begin teaching in our city’s public schools. Professionals from all fields will bring their experience, knowledge, and records of achievement to the classroom to positively impact the lives of the students who need them the most.

Residents will become part of a powerful network of educational leaders and work with other progressive educators to make systemic improvements in our city's schools - classroom by classroom.

Your opportunity to make a difference in education is right now – as Baltimore City embarks on a plan to ensure greater student achievement, management, and quality instruction. Become a part of this historic turning point in the Baltimore City Schools’ history while working to educate our city’s children.

As a Resident, you will pursue your teaching credential with the Baltimore City Teaching Residency and at either Johns Hopkins University or The College of Notre Dame; attend a comprehensive training prior to teaching; get paid a teacher’s salary with full benefits; and have access to tuition assistance, home ownership programs, and student loan deferral or forgiveness programs.

The Baltimore City Teaching Residency is committed to providing the students of BCPSS with a new group of teachers who will work to increase their level of achievement and help prepare them to find academic success.

Resident Teachers will work in the most critical teacher shortage areas as designated by the Baltimore City Public School System. These are subjects in which the need for high-quality teachers is especially great.

The Baltimore City Teaching Residency will operate on two admission cycles during the year. Residents in our Winter Program start training in January while Residents in our Summer Program start training in June.

Summer 2009 Program
The Baltimore City Teaching Residency is recruited and selected an exemplary cohort to begin teaching in our Summer 2008 program during the Fall of 2008. These Resident Teachers will complete an intensive Training Institute during June/July of 2008 and enter Baltimore City classrooms at the start of the 2008-2009 school year.

Currently, we are not accepting positions for this program. 

Winter 2009 Program
Since 2002, the Baltimore City Teaching Residency has brought more than 700 new teachers into the Baltimore City Public School System. Like many large urban school districts, however, the Baltimore City Public School System still faces persistent teacher shortages.  In an effort to make sure that all classrooms begin the following school year with an experienced educator, the Baltimore City Teaching Residency has been charged to meet one of our city's greatest challenges--bringing exceptional teachers into our school system after the start of the school year. 

The Baltimore City Teaching Residency will respond to this need by selecting extraordinary and committed candidates to begin an intensive Training Institute in January, 2009.  Following this training, Residents will be either placed into a co-teaching assignments with a veteran teacher or work with BCTR staff to secure a mid-year placement. 

Because the winter program was created to address specific gaps in classrooms mid-year, job placement for BCTR 2009 Winter participants is based upon the needs and availability of positions in the Baltimore City Public School System.  In most circumstances, positions will be available for Residents to begin teaching in February 2009.  However, if a secured position is not available at the mid-year, accepted candidates shall have the automatic option to defer to our Summer 2009 Program.  Candidates will be notified on the status of available positions no later than mid-November 2008.

We are currently accepting applications for our 2009 Winter Program.  To apply, please click here.