Helping Hands For New Teachers

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Helping hands for new teachers

By Nicole Skeen, Ashlee A. Lewis, Cindy Van Buren and Thomas E. Hodges

Categories: Career pathways, Collaboration, Evaluation & impact, Learning designs, Learning systems/planning, Mentoring & induction, Outcomes

December 2020

Vol. 41, No. 6

For quite some time, many of us involved in teacher preparation at institutions of higher education have felt uncomfortable with preparing and supporting our preservice teachers through graduation, wishing them luck in their first years of teaching, and offering no official post-graduation support, short of the opportunity to return for a graduate degree. This discomfort is particularly prevalent for those of us who believe that partnerships between institutions of higher education and teachers, schools, and districts have the power to transform education. At the University of South Carolina, we addressed this lack of engagement by creating the Carolina Teacher Induction Program (CarolinaTIP). Building on the strength of university-school partnerships and engaging in teacher-centered support, we demonstrate a commitment to our graduates beyond the degree by

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