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From: "Dr. Christina M. Kishimoto" <reply@hawaiidoe.org>
Date: August 13, 2018 at 3:18:08 PM HST
To: <20048903@notes.k12.hi.us>
Subject: Kick Off Your Week: Induction & Mentoring
Reply-To: reply@hawaiidoe.org
Talent development for all teachers
Whether fresh out of college or discovering education as a second career, new teachers play a critical role in our public schools, helping to round out our 13,000-strong teaching workforce.
As we embrace our objective to be an employer of first choice, we want to attract the best candidates to the teaching profession, and it's incumbent upon us to ensure the success of our beginning teachers.
We do this through a comprehensive Induction and Mentoring program designed to support new teachers and help them quickly become as effective as our seasoned teachers.
Everyday our teachers and leaders across the system are engaged in model practices with tremendous impacts on student engagement and learning, and we leverage these skills by training experienced educators to skillfully share best practices and guidance with new teachers.
Every teacher new to the profession is guaranteed a trained instructional mentor in accordance with Board of Education Policy 204-1 and the Hawaii State Teachers Association contract. This involves working with a mentor to develop professional growth plans and opportunities to participate in professional learning communities throughout their first two years of teaching.
Using feedback from the field to assess our impact and effectiveness, we know this program is having far-reaching positive impacts.
Last school year we had 1,411 teachers in their first or second year of teaching. A survey of these beginning teachers showed 97 percent planned to remain in the profession and 86 percent credited their mentor for their decision to stay.
Survey results also show beginning teachers believe their mentor helped to improve their teaching in the following areas:
Using data to inform instruction and assessment;
Using high-level questions to scaffold learning and provide multiple ways for students to demonstrate their learning; and
Using collaborative strategies that enable students to practice social and emotional skills.
If our goal is to have a highly desirable and competitive education pathway that attracts and retains educator talent in Hawaii, we need to pay equal attention to developing the talent of all teachers.
Built into this job-embedded professional development is a reciprocal benefit to mentors. Mentoring allows established teachers to continue contributing effectively to student success and engagement.
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