Scholarship Information
OTRM scholarships in the amount of $5,000 are awarded
by five partner universities to qualified applicants. Interested students
should contact the university directly for more information and/or to
obtain the university scholarship application.
Scholarship awards are divided among the universities as follows:
University |
Scholarships to be
Awarded per Year
from 2003-2007* |
Total
Scholarships to be Awarded* |
Eastern
Oregon University |
10
|
40 |
Oregon
State University |
12 |
48 |
Portland
State University |
12 |
48 |
Southern
Oregon University |
10 |
40 |
| Western Oregon
University |
12 |
48 |
Total: |
56 |
224 |
*
Note: Due to the late start of OTRM during 2002-03, more scholarships
are expected to be provided in 2003-06 at each university.
Application
Requirements
The following is a list of required information for scholarship
applicants. Universities will collect this information and provide it
to the OTRM staff as part of the federally required reporting/evaluation
process (Evaluation & Data Collection).
A sample supplemental student data
form has been created to assist universities in gathering this information
at the time of application. Due dates for online submissions will be
established by the Dean's Council and posted soon for each campus.
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|
Required
Scholarship Applicant Information to be Collected by University |
1. |
Applicant
Name |
| 2. |
Applicant
current address and current phone number |
| 3. |
Permanent
address and permanent phone number |
| 4.
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Gender |
| 5.
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Age
(date of birth) |
| 6. |
Race/Ethnicity |
7. |
Educational background: |
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a.
b.
c.
d. |
where
the undergraduate degree was obtained
the undergraduate academic major and minor (we have to be sure
that education was not the background to meet federal restrictions)
the year of graduation for the BA/BS degree
graduate level degrees held if any, and in what field(s) |
| 8. |
Career/Employment
background |
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a.
b.
c.
d. |
1st
career area
2nd career area
3rd career area
other |
|
9. |
Languages spoken |
| 10.
|
Testing
information (the years the Basic Skills and Praxis Content
Area tests were passed) |
| 11. |
Which
target population the student comes from: |
| |
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
|
a
mid-career professional with baccalaureate degree
a recent college graduate who enter a 5th year program in a
state-identified shortage
a second baccalaureate student with designation they have
completed 1st baccalaureate (at OSU)
a teacher already employed with a transitional license
a paraprofessional with at least 2 years classroom experience
and 2 years of college |
| 12. |
The content area(s) the student wants to teach |
| 13. |
The level of teaching sought: |
| |
a.
b.
c.
d. |
Early
Childhood
Elementary
Middle School
High School |
| 14. |
Name of the university teacher program the applicant will attend |
| 15.
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Amount
of scholarship (in most cases it will be $5,000) |
Service/Payback
Requirements
The Scholarship Agreement/ Promissory Note (EOU,
OSU, PSU,
SOU, WOU)
document will be completed for each scholarship recipient. This document
outlines the terms and conditions of the teaching service requirement.
Examples
of Scholarship Application Forms
The following are examples of scholarship applications
used by Transition to Teaching projects in other states:
Teach
NOW! (Los Angeles County, CA)
Indiana State University, Bloomington
Lehman College (New York, NY)
Missouri Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education
Utah Transition to Teaching Alternative
Program
Lewis-Clark State College
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