About Us:

Amity TeenTeachers

Amity Teen Teaching was a group formed in the late 1990's in conjunction with a state grant for University of New Haven . Since that time our group has undergone a complete transformation to where we are today. Initially the small handful of kids took summer classes at UNH and then were placed a few times a year in a local elementary school for mentoring. As the years went by the grants evaporated and we became autonomous. We went through a dramatic growth spurt in the early 2000's where each year the students went on 2 trips to different types of elementary schools. One trip was urban and one was suburban. We went to schools such as Edgewood in New Haven , Bethany Community School , and Peck Place before realizing that once a year visit wasn't enough to really learn what it was like to be in a classroom. We searched for a partner school who would allow us more frequent visits and were fortunate to fine the John S. Martinez School in New Haven , CT. Our group in 2005 had 12 members committed to attending monthly mentoring at JSM. 2005-6 was such a huge success, we were invited to do it again even though our membership grew nearly 60% to 21 committed students who write in their Journals, attend monthly meetings to discuss their experiences and write lesson plans for usage in their assigned classrooms.