The PEBC Teacher Residency believes that pre-service educators should be treated and trained as the professionals they are. Each of our two differentiated licensure pathways blends educational theory with practice. PEBC coaches and instructors model best practice through seminar coursework allowing residents to immediately transfer their learning into practice for the most effective results. 

The year-long residency also provides opportunities to observe and reflect alongside master teachers during learning labs.

We know that classroom experience dramatically enhances resident growth and simultaneously improves teacher retention rates. Because of this, hands-on experience is a cornerstone of our program.

Throughout the residency year, our residents engage in a year-long co-teaching model with a highly effective mentor teacher where residents gradually take on more responsibility for planning and teaching throughout the year.

The PEBC Teacher Residency intentionally and thoughtfully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion as a foundational component of its program. Foundational texts discuss the practice of culturally responsive teaching and 100 seminar hours are spent engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse educational topics. The program has incorporated anti-biased education principles into its guiding practices and ensures its residents are placed in a variety of classrooms in diverse settings. 

Each resident is thoughtfully matched with an experienced mentor teacher for the duration of an entire school year. Prior to this matching, potential mentors and residents have the opportunity to engage in conversations to determine the fitness of a potential match. Residents then spend an entire year in their mentors’ classrooms, learning from the mentor’s demonstration of best practice. Each resident is also assigned to a dedicated program field coach who regularly visits residents in their mentors’ classrooms, observes lessons and gives feedback on lesson plans and instruction to provide support. The Field Coach continues to provide coaching support to Year 2 post-residents in their own classrooms after the residency year has ended.

The PEBC Teacher Residency partners with the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) to support nation-wide research and advocacy for teacher residency programs.

Through this partnership, both qualitative and quantitative data are collected about specific program components. The resulting data drive continuous improvement efforts at the program level. Further, internal processes for eliciting formative feedback from residents, mentors and school leaders help to inform our continuous improvement efforts throughout the year.