Most first-year Missouri teachers in the study met with their mentors several times a month for meetings averaging less than 30 minutes¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Over 70 percent of teachers who met with mentors reported meeting several times a month, over 80 percent reported meetings lasting less than 30 minutes on average, and 56 percent met several times a month for less than 30 minutes each time. → Brodersen 2025

Evidence¶

Brodersen 2025¶

Brodersen, R. M., Chiang, H., Coleman, K., Hitt, C., Li, J., Ritter, G., & Weston-Sementelli, J. (2025). Examining the mentoring experiences of first-year teachers in Missouri (REL 2025–014). U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. https://ies.ed.gov/use-work/resource-library/report/descriptive-study/examining-mentoring-experiences-first-year-teachers-missouri

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Weighted descriptive analysis of the 2022/23 MO DESE mentoring survey (analytic sample 297; n = 258 for this item), reported in table 1. The report states "Over 80 percent of the teachers reported that their meetings lasted less than 30 minutes on average" and that over 70 percent met several times a month.

"Over half of first-year teachers (56 percent) both met with their mentors several times a month and met for less than 30 minutes on average each time."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Time spent on specific mentoring activities varied widely, with some teachers never observed by mentors and others observed an hour or more a month — related
• The mentoring topics first-year teachers most frequently received guidance on were noninstructional rather than instructional — related