This document presents a two-year overview of the University of Alabama/Birmingham First-Year Teacher Pilot Program, designed to share the responsibility for aiding beginning teachers among the teacher training institution, the local educational agency, and the State Department of Education. Objectives of the program were to determine first-year…

In this annotated bibliography, articles and reports of studies on the subject of beginning teacher induction are cited. Covering the topic from different perspectives, these writings address the general purposes of induction programs and, in some cases, describe how a specific program meets these needs. Some of the articles provide information on…

This report constitutes the final activity for the Special Project in Guidance and Counseling, Region VI, for Fiscal Year 1970. Major objectives of the second year of operation of the project were: (1) to implement, in two pilot centers in each state, an experimental guidance and counseling program for Adult Basic Education (ABE) as developed by…

The objective of this project was to develop a model designed to expose the new community college faculty member to the essential components of community college teaching. Specifically the objectives were (1) to aid an individual to be aware of himself as a teacher and as a participant in the 2-year college environment as well as in the larger…

Scarborough (Ontario) School District Area 10 has had a "New Teacher Support Committee" since September 1991, the focus of which is the support of beginning teachers. During the fall of the 1991-92 school year, Area 10 elementary schools participated in a first year teacher orientation program designed to help teachers new to the…