Wilmington University participants of its immersive Year-Long Residency Program (YLR) at Frederick Douglass Elementary School in Seaford are positively impacting students.
Julio Gonzalez, a YLR participant, started a boys’ after-school soccer club, inspired by his fellow WilmU YLR Abigail Porter, a coach for the Girls on the Run Club at Douglass. The boys wondered why they did not have a club…
Yearlong Teaching Residents Go to the Front of the Class
October 18, 2021
Delaware’s new law supporting Yearlong Teacher Residency Programs allows yearlong teacher interns across the state to receive a stipend of up to $25,000 for their work in partner school districts.
Wilmington University’s year-long residency option, an immersive…
Helping to Solve the State’s Teacher Shortage
March 30, 2023
The College of Education and Liberal Arts (COELA) is a leader in helping resolve Delaware’s teacher shortage. The state’s public elementary and secondary schools had more than 500 openings at the beginning of the academic year, attributed, in part, to a spike in teacher…
An Immersive Education for Student Teachers
March 11, 2019
Thirty-two students from Wilmington University’s College of Education have spent the entire school year as full-time teachers.
Story by David Bernard
Photos by Susan L. Gregg
Thirty-two students from Wilmington University’s College of Education have spent the entire school year as full-time teachers. This in-depth, on-the-job learning has been an extraordinary opportunity for them, but this…