We cannot adequately prepare the coming generation if the least able students enter the profession. Teaching must become a top priority and gifted students must be recruited. The Teacher Cadet Program is an innovative approach designed to attract talented young people to the teaching profession through a challenging introduction to teaching. The Program seeks to provide high school students insight into the nature of teaching, the problems of schooling and the critical issues affecting the quality of education in America's schools. The class is taught one period per day for a year or the equivalent of that amount of time.
Students earn a social studies elective unit for satisfactory completion of the course.
The Teacher and Teaching College Partnerships Twenty-two of South Carolina's 30 colleges and universities with teacher education programs provide support to the Teacher Cadet sites. Over two-thirds of the college partners grant college credit for satisfactory completion of the course.