Lifelines to the Classroom: Designing Support for Beginning Teachers
Author: Zimmerman, J., Stansbury, K.
Publisher: WestEd
Publication Date: 2000
Publication City: San Francisco
Publication State: CA
Publication County: USA
Full text available online at: http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/rs/212
Abstract (written by Author/Publisher)
This knowledge brief provides a rationale for giving explicit support to new teachers, identifies the critical challenges they face, and describes key elements of low-intensity and high-intensity support programs. The brief is aimed at state departments of education, local superintendents, and principals looking to develop or refine a support program to raise retention rates for newly minted educators and help them become more effective classroom teachers.
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