Teacher Training Center (TTC) Overview

Shady Hill's nationally known Teacher Training Center (TTC) is a graduate-level teacher preparation program that provides aspiring teachers with well guided experiences in pre-K through eighth-grade classrooms. In this one year, site-based program, apprentice teachers discover what teaching is all about through observation, supervised teaching, workshops, seminars, and continuous involvement in the life of the school. Some participants choose to enroll solely in the TTC, though most also participate in a partnering master's program at Lesley University or Boston University.

• Teaching Experience
• A Master's Degree in Education
• Teacher Certification
• A community that values joyful, active, learning

	"I am a professor in education; I teach teachers; I shift the culture of schools; I change the landscape for people of color. I feel fortunate to be in a position to do this important work and to have found the TTC, which started me on a path of making a difference on a large scale."  Charlotte Jacobs, PhD TTC ‘06 -- Co-Director, Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR) at Penn GE __________________________________
	"In my cohort, I was selected as that year’s TTC Urban Teaching Fellow, which placed me in a Cambridge public school for my spring term. Seeing different schools with different approaches opened me to a diversity of ideas, issues, and communities."  Sean Hamer, Ed.D. TTC ‘05 & Urban Teaching Fellow -- Head of Alta Vista School, San Francisco __________________________________
	"Something deeply ingrained in me from the TTC is that schools are dynamic, team-oriented places where communication, collaboration, empathy, and social skills are as important as the academics."  Nathan Tanaka TTC ‘13 -- Middle School Head, Prospect Sierra School __________________________________
	"I never forgot about my time at SHS in the TTC program and the encouragement it gave me to write a book. Flash forward over 15 years later and I am a published author."  Grace Kwon Shim TTC ‘05 -- Author, The Noh Family __________________________________

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