Pre-Service

Dates

Pre-Service will support you in becoming an anti-racist teacher leader, prepare you to provide your students with a high-quality education, and equip you to pursue a lifetime commitment to advancing educational equity and excellence. Throughout the summer and your first 90 days of teaching, you will build relationships with a network of systems-change leaders within your region and across the nationwide 2024 corps. You will engage in continuous and critical self-reflection and immediately put the lessons you learn into action in the classroom and beyond.

TFA’s Pre-Service program takes place over three phases, beginning with Pre-Service pre-work in May and extending through your first 90 days teaching in the fall. Throughout the Pre-Service experience, you will engage in a mix of synchronous sessions that you attend “live” with other corps members and asynchronous content you complete on your own time. We will update these dates as they are confirmed in the winter/early spring.

Pre-Service Journey

• Pre-Service Launch: Access to pre-work begins in early May and all of your modules are due in early June. (Part-time Asynchronous Work)

• Pre-Service Kick-Off!: Starts on June 6 & 7! (Full-time Synchronous, Virtual. You’re expected to be full-time TFA. Please plan accordingly to end other employment and arrange for childcare if necessary)

• Pre-Service Training: June 10-21 (Full-Time Synchronous & Asynchronous Work, Virtual. You’ll have the weekends off as well as Wednesday, June 19 to observe Juneteenth)

• Practicum: June 26-July 26

  • This is your in-person teaching experience where you apply all of the skills you learned during Pre-Service training to your own classroom. You’ll be expected to be fully moved to our region by June 25 (check out our Moving Here page of the Onboarding Hub).

  • June 26-28 will be orientation at schools, preparing your classroom, NLU Orientation, etc.

  • July 1-26 will be in-person student teaching. When you’re at your school sites your day will begin between 7:30-8am, you’ll be at school until noon, and then you’ll transition home for virtual training sessions until 5pm central time)

    • You will have the 4th of July off but we will have programming on Friday, July 5 so please plan accordingly.

• First 90 Days of School: August-Fall (Full-time, in-person teaching and support)

For an example, you can check out the 2023 schedule here. We will share a full 2024 schedule in the spring.

Attendance policy

You can learn more about what our typical Attendance and Leave policy looks like on page 8 in the 2023 Pre-Service Policy Supplement. We will release the 2024 Policy Supplement in spring 2024.

Detailed Resources For Development

You will complete in-depth learning modules as part of your onboarding action items. While we’re building those modules, here’s the PDF version of the 2023 Pre-Service Overview.

For a welcome to Pre-Service, watch this video from ChaKia Parham, Vice President, Corps Training & Leadership Experiences, as she walks us through a high level overview of the 2023 Teach For America Pre-Service.