Future Teachers of Chicago's central purpose is to recruit, motivate and prepare primarily minority students for career in teaching. Core teams provide college, high school and junior high students with training and mentoring, tutoring opportunities, exposure to college at an early age and career exploration in teaching. In Addition, to FTC's Core Teams, FTC is partnering with the Chicago Board of Education to implement after school learning centers in 82 park sites throughout the city. Each site provides children with homework help and enriched academic experiences to an average of 40 elementary school children from the neighborhood. Elementary students tutor during class time or after school and high school students work at their schools and also in the after-school programs in the park district.
College students work in the park district and in some elementary schools as well.
The purpose of FTC is to recruit and prepare minority students from Chicago for careers in teaching. Imbedded in that goal is the specific purpose of preparing teachers for Chicago Public Schools. To increase the number of minority candidates entering teaching in the Chicago school.