Ball State's program builds on two successful, established programs—the Urban Semester Program and PhysTEC Mentoring Program. The Urban Semester Program places pre-service teachers in classrooms, enabling them to gain hands-on experience working with students. The PhysTEC Program provides an innovative method of preparing science teachers, coupled with mentoring and support for new teachers.

The one-year Teaching Fellows program will be held on the Ball State campus, online, and on site at the partner schools. Fellows will observe and learn best practices in science and mathematics teaching and apply this knowledge in high school classrooms.

Mentoring and support from experienced teachers is an important part of the program and will help to ensure that Fellows are successful in the classroom. Ball State Fellows will receive concentrated individual attention from Ball State faculty who are in residence at the high schools as well as from the clinical (classroom) teachers. Mentoring will continue after Fellows graduate from the program.

Ball State is a leader in using educational technologies in the classroom. Fellows will learn to integrate computing and technology into teaching and engage today's youth in the most current learning technologies.

• Fellows earn a master's degree in secondary education with licensure in mathematics, physics, or physical science
• One-year program: one summer session on the Ball State campus, followed by a full academic year at a partner high school
• The program builds on two successful, award-winning programs in the  College of Sciences and Humanities and  Teachers College
• Existing robust partnerships with  partner schools in Muncie and Anderson
• Concentrated individual attention from university faculty and clinical (classroom) teachers