Does TNTP Teaching Fellows pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, TNTP Teaching Fellows employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at TNTP Teaching Fellows. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at TNTP Teaching Fellows?

54% of TNTP Teaching Fellows employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated TNTP Teaching Fellows 2.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.2 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at TNTP Teaching Fellows?

Teaching Fellow (27) , Teacher (9) , Fellow (6) , Special Education Teacher (4) , DC Teaching Fellow (2) , Lead Teacher (2) , PST Coach (2) , Resident (2) , Resident Teacher (2) , Tutor (2)

What are the pros of working at TNTP Teaching Fellows according to real employee reviews?

"The only people who were cut from our summer training were either totally unprofessional or clearly had no idea what they were doing in the classroom after 6 weeks of training." ((in 12 reviews)); "Friendly staff" ((in 3 reviews)); "Most of the people (other Fellows and Coaches) were awesome!" ((in 3 reviews))

What are the cons of working at TNTP Teaching Fellows according to real employee reviews?

"service training is hard work and requires a large time commitment unpaid." ((in 10 reviews)); "Even though, there is individual coaching there was a lack of knowledge in advising on specific content areas in the sciences specifically." ((in 6 reviews)); "12) Coaches give residents 's and especially 1's on some of the ACE evaluations just because management tells them to." ((in 4 reviews)); "22) The cooperating teacher you get placed with may have terrible classroom management and organizational skills." ((in 3 reviews)); "No work life balance , you get time offf but still have a ton of work to do ." ((in 3 reviews))

TNTP Teaching Fellows Reviews

3.2

54% would recommend to a friend

(90 total reviews)

Tequilla Brownie

100% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

TNTP Teaching Fellows has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 90 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TNTP Teaching Fellows employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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90 reviews

4.0

18 Sept 2015

Intense but Worth It (PST-only review)

Teaching fellow - pst

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Pros

(This review only describes the Pre-Service training to Placement experience.) This is the fastest, cheapest route to being in a classroom and getting certified, and you will make amazing friends in your cohort. While the summer training may seem unnecessarily cruel, every part of it reflects something of the reality you will encounter as an inner-city teacher. My placement feels like a breeze after making it through PST.

Cons

The summer training was the worst and most intense 8 weeks of my life, there was a huge variation in quality and style between the different school sites and coaches, and a lot of my friends quit or got cut (even on the last day). Honestly, if I had known what percentage of my fellows would quit or get cut, I probably wouldn't have done the program. But now I have passed and I am happy -- so just consider the following: - Can you be miserable, sleep-deprived and depressed for 8 weeks... and still get to the school at 7 am, play nice with the staffers, and have a smile painted on by the time the kids arrive? - Can you graciously take tons of advice from different people and apply it towards mechanically passing a rubric that at times feels very arbitrary or even wrong? In the end, it's only 8 weeks, and those two factors were the major deciding factors (at least at my site) for who quit/got cut and who made it.

1.0

9 July 2016

Essentially a Scam

Anonymous employee

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I do not have anything to write here, but the website is insisting I fill in this field to submit my review.

Cons

This program is, in its very essence, a scam. Yes, people make it through this program and become certified teachers, and this is surely how they keep it running. The reality is that the majority of the people will be forced out before they are able to make it to the end of the program or the end of their first school year. I could conservatively estimate that fewer than 10% of our original cohort made it through to the end, and out of these, the percent that actually received their certification is even lower. As I attended meetings with less and less people in them, it became painfully apparently that all they were here do was take as much money from us as possible and then leave us to drown. It was sickening to see. I URGE you to reconsider if you're considering joining any of the TNTP cohorts. When I was choosing which certification program to join I saw all of the negative TNTP reviews and naively thought that it would somehow be different for me. Well, I was wrong. Again, if you are considering joining a TNTP cohort I strongly advise you to look into all other options first. I would not recommend TNTP anyone.

2.0

11 Oct 2015

Run for the hills!

Teaching fellow

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Pros

I met some really great people and some of the coaches were really helpful at the Detroit site. I have only stayed as long as I have because of the wonderful people.

Cons

The program is disorganized and dishonest. We were constantly getting information at the last minute or taught how to do something after we should have been doing it. We were told we would get our certificate in one year, then later told it would take three. And then, when we are struggling because we are under-prepared and over-worked we are told that we don't care enough about the students. The way that the leaders interact with the fellows is rude and condescending. I am angry because of the way I've been treated, and I'm stuck having to do it because I racked up debt over the two months I couldn't work this summer and now I have to pay an additional $5000 on top of it which would be immediately payable if I quit. It is even worse because the students I teach are left with an unprepared and chronically exhausted teacher who isn't able to do her job. I regret doing this and I can't even get out of it right now.

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