Dive Brief:
- The Flatiron School and Teach for America will launch a pilot program that will teach 20 participants how to code during a two-week bootcamp, starting in June, and then how to teach coding for six to eight weeks.
- The student teachers will teach coding to Flatiron’s pre-college programs for high school students in New York, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and Austin, Texas.
- Flatiron wants to expand the educators’ coding education program beyond Teach for America, EdSurge reported.
Dive Insight:
Computer coding is seen as an in-demand skill and a path to employment, so coding teachers are in high demand. The program will pay each participant a $1,000-per-week stipend for the length of the program, which will end with the teachers having access to Flatiron’s curriculum and software for their own classes. Each participant must have completed two years’ worth of teaching with Teach for America and be committed to teaching for another year. Participants in the program also have to agree to initiate computer science after-school clubs, workshops, and other related projects at their schools.