Focus on Beginning Teachers

Publisher: WestEd
Publication Date: 2002
Journal: WestEd R&D Alert
Journal Volume: 4(2)
Full text available online at: http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/rd-02-02.pdf

Description

Beginning teachers need guidance and support in order to become the most effective and skillful classroom leaders they can be — to provide the high-quality education students deserve. This issue of R&D Alert shares lessons from WestEd's work in supporting and guiding new teachers. Articles focus on a study of induction programs in several other countries, successful initiatives in the U.S., mentoring and classroom-based professional development, and support for new teachers of English language learners.



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