Mentoring New Teachers

Viewing all the presentations was an excellent idea. They were all very informing and brought to light present-day issues that can impact on all of us as educators. Everyone did an excellent job. I was especially impressed with all the new teacher mentoring programs. My district is just getting started with a mentoring program to address the concerns of newly hired teachers. Staff, for the first time, attended classes on mentoring this summer. This was our first crop of newly hired teachers to participate in an actual program instead of having a teacher in their department asked to watch over them during their first year. It will be interesting to see if and how this program improves to the level of some of the programs presented this weekend.