The mission of Match Teacher Residency (MTR) is to create unusually effective rookie teachers.

As of 2012-13, the 2-year program works as follows:

In the first year, residents are trained in Boston. It's intense. Monday through Thursday of each week, residents tutor students in small groups and assist teachers.  Teacher training -- a mix of graduate school classes, simulations, and ultimate student teaching -- happens all day each Friday and Saturday.  In spring, we help our "residents" find teaching positions in the nation's top urban charter and turnaround schools.  School leaders covet Match Residents; many folks get multiple job offers. This first year culminates in residents receiving a Massachusetts teaching license. At this point, 80% of the MTR experience is complete. 

During the second year, residents have left Match Teacher Residency. They have full-time teaching jobs elsewhere. MTR is still involved, in two ways. First, we provide support and coaching for those teachers who want it. Second, MTRs take 3 online graduate school classes. After the end of this full-time year of teaching, MTRs are eligible to earn a masters degree. 

MTR has a "sister" institution.  It's called the Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education (SGSE).  This is a new independent institution, one closely linked to MTR.  It was approved by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education in March 2012.  All MTRs are enrolled in SGSE.  All SGSE students are part of MTR.  The simplified version is: MTR is essentially the hands-on experience (tutoring, student teaching, being coached, practicing) and the Graduate School offers the classes and academic assessments.