In the article, New Teacher Induction, The Foundation for Comprehensive, Coherent, and Sustained Professional Development written by famed educator Harry K. Wong induction and mentor are discussed and value of both. The statistics concerning the hiring of new teachers was enlighten, especially the fact that thirty-three percent of new teachers are hired after the school year has already begun, and sixty-two percent are hired within thirty days of when they are to begin teaching. (Kardos and Liu, 2003) Even educators who have taught for twenty years know how hectic the start of school can be so coming into that is difficult even for an experienced teacher. I would be interested to know of the teachers in those statistics how many are lateral
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I found it interesting that the part of speech for each term was discussed, induction being a noun and mentoring being verb or used as an adjective. Induction, a comprehensive, coherent, and sustained professional development process that is organized by school districts to train, support, and retain new teacher, which then should seamlessly progress them into a lifelong learning program. Mentoring is not induction; it is a component of the induction process. A mentor is a single person, whose basic function is to help a new teacher. The key word in the previous sentence is help and that helps must come in many forms; therefore, it is a verb because it is a continuous action. A new teacher needs a mentor, someone to go to however studies have shown that mentoring does not teach teacher effectiveness, it is designed to answer questions of survival. For a mentor to be effective, he or she must be trained and then used in combination with the other components of the induction …show more content…
When comparing the North Carolina standards to Dr. Wong’s seven induction strategies; administrative support, welcome center, pre-school workshop, demonstration classrooms, long-term learning and multiple support I would say Cabarrus County has some room for further improvement. Everyone in Cabarrus County knows the value of a mentor therefore before a person can be a mentor he or she must attend a day of training. After reading the article I believe there should be training that both the mentee and mentor attend together, that will help build the relationship and allow everyone to be aware of the expectations. North Carolina Standard three says mentors provided time to work with beginning teachers during and outside of the school day, I am a mentor for two teachers this year one a lateral entry and another is in her third year and there is no protected time for us to work together in school. We must meet before or after school and we communicate a great deal by phone. Cabarrus County has invested in PLC or Performance Learning Communities to help ensure collaboration among educators of any age , which can be seen as long term learning and multiple support in the Wong strategies.
The focus of education is student learning therefore if we want successful students we must have successful teachers in the classroom. North Carolina like most states has a set of induction standards
I found it interesting that the part of speech for each term was discussed, induction being a noun and mentoring being verb or used as an adjective. Induction, a comprehensive, coherent, and sustained professional development process that is organized by school districts to train, support, and retain new teacher, which then should seamlessly progress them into a lifelong learning program. Mentoring is not induction; it is a component of the induction process. A mentor is a single person, whose basic function is to help a new teacher. The key word in the previous sentence is help and that helps must come in many forms; therefore, it is a verb because it is a continuous action. A new teacher needs a mentor, someone to go to however studies have shown that mentoring does not teach teacher effectiveness, it is designed to answer questions of survival. For a mentor to be effective, he or she must be trained and then used in combination with the other components of the induction …show more content…
When comparing the North Carolina standards to Dr. Wong’s seven induction strategies; administrative support, welcome center, pre-school workshop, demonstration classrooms, long-term learning and multiple support I would say Cabarrus County has some room for further improvement. Everyone in Cabarrus County knows the value of a mentor therefore before a person can be a mentor he or she must attend a day of training. After reading the article I believe there should be training that both the mentee and mentor attend together, that will help build the relationship and allow everyone to be aware of the expectations. North Carolina Standard three says mentors provided time to work with beginning teachers during and outside of the school day, I am a mentor for two teachers this year one a lateral entry and another is in her third year and there is no protected time for us to work together in school. We must meet before or after school and we communicate a great deal by phone. Cabarrus County has invested in PLC or Performance Learning Communities to help ensure collaboration among educators of any age , which can be seen as long term learning and multiple support in the Wong strategies.
The focus of education is student learning therefore if we want successful students we must have successful teachers in the classroom. North Carolina like most states has a set of induction standards