Education Leadership
Mentoring
Teachers have to pull off a seamless performance, monitor students understanding and engage students in important ideas
Analyze effectives models of mentoring, to develop skills in observing and talking about teaching, and to learn to assess nwe teachers' progress and their own effectiveness as mentors
The learning curve
New teachers need to learn how to think under feet, size up situations and decide what to do, study the effects of their practice
Their learn to inform the planning and teaching.
New teacher also have to learn to teach in a particular context
using standards
New teachers create an individual learning plan that identifies particular development activities designed to improve the new teacher's knowledge and skill's.
For example
Mentors help new teachers an identify areas of strenght and areas of needed growth using a self-assesment to linked to the teaching profession
learning to teach
Begining teachers have legitimate learning needs that cannot be grasped in advance or outside the contexts of teaching.
For the novice the quesions are unending: What am I supposed to teach? How will my students be tested? What will their test scores say about me as a teacher? What does the principal expect?
Quality induction
New teachers learn to create safe classroom environments, engage all students in worthwhile learning, wok effectively with parents, and base instructional decisions on assesment data
A process of enculturation
Reflects a strong emphasis on anjustment
sevarl days are required to drill to students the information
"Teaching the ropes"
We still need to think about who is, and what they are teaching
"Learning the ropes" and "easied entry"
Suggest that induction is about helping new teachers fit into the existing system.
the challenges
we have to meet students learning needs, reach their full potential and improving the learning for all them.
we take teaching seriosly as the learning profession
What new teachers need to learn
The learning needs of beginning teachers and of the resources requied to create effective programs
