Describes a Long Island (New York) high school district's concentrated effort to expand their pool of potential substitute teachers and offer them a comprehensive orientation program. The district used PTA newsletters, letters to staff, and newspaper notices to attract applicants. Training covered curriculum, teaching strategies, classroom…

Giving a school's best teachers the challenge of supervision will empower them to assume greater responsibility, decision making, accountability, and professionalism. Suggested guidelines for supervising teachers include holding an annual meeting with student teachers, preparing classes for student teachers, demonstrating good teaching and…

Recommends an eight-step program for school districts seeking first-rate teachers, including (1) determining desirable staff characteristics, (2) broadening recruitment strategies, (3) honing selection procedures, (4) completing preemployment paperwork and placement decisions, (5) beginning orientation immediately, (6) setting up support systems,…

Orientation programs can familiarize new teachers with their responsibilities and help them survive their first few months in the classroom. One such program involves six sessions, each devoted to a broad topic: key people, facilities, organizational structure and expectations, student policies, teacher policies, and resources. (MLH)

What happens just after new teacher is hired establishes teacher's future attitude about profession. To keep teachers from turning against management, districts must create induction connection, network of people who will work with the teacher throughout year. These can include teacher sponsor, support staff, personnel office staff, curriculum and…

The Kenmore Teacher Mentor Project, an upstate New York initiative, involves 6 mentors and 40 teachers new to the profession or the district. Mentors help newcomers become proficient in whole-language instruction, cooperative learning, computerized instruction, and learning-style strategies. The program will soon include intervention for tenured…

New teachers often enter the profession expecting to accomplish what the veteran teacher has been doing for years, with equal success and equal lack of support. A survey of South Carolina school districts shows that curriculum, instruction, and classroom management techniques are omitted from many teacher induction programs. Ameliorative…

A school's improved substitute teacher program provided competent teachers and maintained a stable learning environment. Strategies included aggressive recruitment, training workshops, a program coordinator, information about each classroom, a handbook of suggestions, substitutes' attendance at faculty meetings, holding students accountable for…

A recent National Center for Education Statistics survey indicates inadequate administrative support as the main reason for teacher attrition. In a 1990-91 National Education Association survey, teachers cite incompetent and uncooperative administrators as the greatest hindrance to job performance. Other dissatisfiers include insufficient…