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Volunteer Teaching Corps
Are You Up to the Corps Challenge?
Every year dozens of college graduates choose to join the Volunteer Teaching Corps. We offer an exciting two-year teaching program that places outstanding recent college graduates as classroom teachers in inner-city Chicago schools. Members of the Corps are given a unique opportunity—the chance to serve children; the chance to grow personally and spiritually by overcoming challenges; the chance to work side-by-side with other talented young people from around the country with similar principles and passions; and the chance to put your education to work for those whose needs are most neglected by our society.
A Life of Service
As a Corps member the challenges of such a calling are great, but the rewards of service are immeasurable. Our teachers touch the lives of countless children. Equally important, this two-year experience inspires and empowers Corps members whose lives are enriched by making a real difference in the world.
In addition to personal and spiritual growth, we also offer many benefits to make your Corps service unique and fulfilling:
The Four Living Realities
The Volunteer Teaching Corps is founded on four living realities central to both the successful growth of its Corps members and their commitment to inner-city education…
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Teaching as Service. Corps members serve as professional educators engaged in the pursuit of excellence. They strive to make classrooms emotionally supportive and educationally challenging.
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Simple Living. Often, contemporary society promotes the belief that a successful life is solely determined by material wealth. Corps members learn the value of resources through careful discernment of personal, professional, and communal choices. The savings created during each Corps year benefit VTC schools through scholarships for children in need, classroom supplies, and extracurricular activities.
Simple Living: FAQ, Comments from the Corps
Faith-Based Community. Individualism and competition are highly esteemed social values in our modern culture. Faith-based community offers an environment for reflection and spiritual development where Corps members find support with others who are experiencing the same challenges.
Faith-Based Community: FAQ, Comments from the Corps
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Spirituality. Spirituality is the inextricable link that draws together service, simple living and faith-based community. Honoring, questioning and sharing faith encourages one to transcend often hidden but real cultural assumptions.
Spirituality: Comments from the Corps
By embracing the four living realities, Corps members grow more deeply in a personal and communal awareness of the socio-economic environment in which they serve. Corps members share questions of faith and spirituality and are enriched and challenged by immersion with diverse perspectives
Program Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (Education major/degree NOT necessary)
- Undergraduate G.P.A. of at least 3.0
- Commitment to serving two years
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- High level of energy, initiative, and leadership
- Commitment to helping others
- Sense of personal faith and spirituality
- Willingness to live in and actively contribute to a faith-based community
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