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- Title
Rejuvenating Retirees: Mentoring First-Year Teachers.
- Authors
Hammer, Margaret Dee
- Abstract
This article provides an overview of the Novice Teacher Induction Program (NTIP) and explains how mentors are selected and trained. NTIP has rejuvenated retirees and put a spring in their step once again. During Fall 2002 the Texas State University System and Houston Endowment Inc. became partners in a grant to retain quality teachers for NTIP and to date the Houston Endowment Board has provided $4.7 million. According to the 2003 No Dream Denied report, the real school-staffing problem is not recruitment, but teacher retention. It states that inability to support high-quality teaching in many schools is driven not by too few teachers entering but by too many leaving, "Leavers" exceed entrants by 23 percent. According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future year 2000 statistics, 25 percent of new teachers are leaving within the first three years and 30 percent within five years, nationally.
- Subjects
TEACHERS; MENTORS; RETIREES; TEXAS State University System; HOUSTON Endowment Inc.
- Publication
Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 2005, Vol 71, Issue 4, p20
- ISSN
0011-8044
- Publication type
Article