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(What does "Endorsed by" mean?)Thread: Professional
Subgroup: Group
Foci: Team (1st yr teachers)
Program Title: New Teacher Mentoring
Contact Person/Office: Leslie Gould
Program Description: The new teacher mentor, through individual conferences, classroom observations, and group meetings, creates a collaborative relationship with each new teacher and is dedicated to bringing 1st-year teachers into the Bellarmine community and improving student learning in the new teacher’s classroom.
Rationale: Too often new teachers feel isolated in their new professional environment. A mentor offers support, creates challenges, and facilitates the development of a professional vision as career Ignatian educators for all new teachers.
Leadership: New teacher mentor works with the principal to create and evaluate the program.
Implementation: New teacher mentor and principal
Processes and Resources: Works with Provincial Assistant for secondary schools in linking the first year mentoring with the second year teachers’ retreat.
Finances: New teacher mentor stipend
Rewards: New teachers feel welcomed and supported; improved student learning in new teachers’ classrooms
Time (When/Length): New teacher mentor observes new teachers once each quarter throughout first year; monthly meetings for all new teachers; individual conferences as needed
Location (Space): The Bellarmine campus
Accountability/Assessment: New teacher mentor meets with principal 2-3 times a year to share observations of new teachers and discuss the direction and impact of mentoring program.
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