9 keys to mentoring in teacher professional development

New Mexico state law requires every beginning teacher to receive mentoring during their provisional year before obtaining a permanent license. Albuquerque Public Schools, the Albuquerque Teachers Federation and the University of New Mexico’s College of Education launched a mentoring program in 2004 with nine tenets:

1. Serve all first-year licensed teachers.
2. Differentiate mentoring differentiated by need.
3. Mentor teachers continue to teach in their own classrooms.
4. Provide a consistent model for mentoring.
5. Develop mentoring standards.
6. Align mentoring with state and federal mandates and guidelines.
7. Support the principals who are implementing the program.
8. Offer a mentor-the-mentor component.
9. Include a research, evaluation and tracking system to document mentoring outcomes.

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