Apprenticeships have been a part of the trades for generations, but in education, the first teacher apprenticeship program was only rolled out four years ago in Tennessee. Last year RIC became the first institute of higher education in Rhode Island to offer a certification pathway for teaching apprentices in the state of Rhode Island.
Offered through RIC’s Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the Registered Teaching Apprenticeship Program (RTAP) provides a pathway for pre-K-12 paraprofessionals, such as teaching assistants, to lead classrooms of their own as licensed educators.
This is a joint collaboration between Rhode Island College; Building Futures (the leading experts in apprenticeships in Rhode Island); the Institute for Labor Studies and Research; pre-K-12 school districts; and three unions: the RI AFT, the NEA of RI and the AFL-CIO.
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