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Patrick, Ervin D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study was designed to improve the current beginning teacher support program and address the problem of beginning or early career teachers leaving the district. Researchers have found that as many as 50% of teachers leave the profession within their first five years of teaching (Darling-Hammond & Sykes, 2003). This study proposed changes…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Improvement Programs, Teacher Persistence
Ciolek, Raymond – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research was to investigate whether new teacher and new teacher mentor perceptions of the effectiveness of the Missouri State Beginning Teachers' Assistance Program (BTAP) were positive and whether the new teacher perceptions led to the new teacher remaining in the teaching profession at least five years. At the time of this…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teacher Persistence
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Ralph, Edwin George; Walker, Keith D. – McGill Journal of Education, 2010
The "Adaptive Mentorship[C]" ("AM") model is described and implications are raised for its wider implementation. The researchers derived the AM model from earlier contingency leadership approaches; and during the last two decades, they have further refined AM through application and research. They suggest the benefits and transferability of AM to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Models, Program Descriptions
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Fritz, Carrie; Miller, Greg – Journal of Leadership Education, 2003
The principal purpose of this article was to identify supervisory approaches available to instructional leaders in education. Selected supervisory approaches served as the basis for creating the Supervisory Options for Instructional Leaders (SOIL) Model. Instructional leaders in a variety of educational settings could use this model. The SOIL…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Supervisory Methods, Models, Rewards
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Showers, Beverly – Educational Leadership, 1985
Discusses the use of coaching to establish a communal learning effort among teachers and reinforce skills introduced through inservice. Issues examined include the length of coaching, who should coach, training coaches, coaching's effects, the relationships of evaluation and supervision to coaching, the principal's role, and implementation. (MCG)
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
Holmes, Dennis H. – 1986
During the 1985-86 school year an Intern-Mentor Program was implemented in all four regions of the District of Columbia Public Schools by the Incentive Programs Office. This program, designed to improve the teaching performance of first-year, beginning teachers, involved 90 new teachers and 10 specially selected mentor teachers. Mentors provided…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs