The New Teacher Support Program reaches fewer than 10 percent of beginning teachers, far below the statewide mentoring program that reached all beginning teachers in the 1990s¶
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Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2022: local conditions change quickly
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q2 i? The New Teacher Support Program supports fewer than 10% of beginning teachers, a much smaller proportion than the statewide mentoring program that reached all beginning teachers in the 1990s. → WestEd 2019
Evidence¶
WestEd 2019¶
WestEd, Learning Policy Institute, & Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. (2019). Sound Basic Education for All: An Action Plan for North Carolina. San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED606141
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The report's review of professional development programs states the New Teacher Support Program "supports fewer than 10% of beginning teachers", contrasting it with the 1990s statewide mentoring program that reached all beginning teachers. No effect size is printed.
"The New Teacher Support Program, for example, supports fewer than 10% of beginning teachers, a much smaller proportion than the statewide mentoring program that reached all beginning teachers in the 1990s."
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Related Claims¶
- Teachers without mentors reached the impact level more often than mentored teachers, raising the question that mentoring may inhibit development — related
- Fidelity of FAST program-component delivery was high (97–98 percent overall), but reach to families fell far below design expectations — related
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The New Teacher Support Program reaches fewer than 10 percent of beginning teachers, far below the statewide mentoring program that reached all beginning teachers in the 1990s |
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The New Teacher Support Program reaches fewer than 10 percent of beginning teachers, far below the statewide mentoring program that reached all beginning teachers in the 1990s |
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2019 |
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2022 |
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