The major purposes of this literature review were to locate and describe existing programs that assist beginning teachers, and to describe the evaluation of these programs. Of particular interest was literature in which the problems of beginning teachers were described. Literature covering the following topics is reviewed: (1) why extended teacher training programs were developed; (2) the advantages of extended training programs; (3) why extended training programs fail; (4) why district and state programs were developed; (5) evaluation of extended teacher training programs; (6) the problems of beginning teachers; and (7) the problems with teacher training programs. A bibliography is included. (JD)