Mentoring and Partnerships. Contingent upon securing grant funding, the District will offer a mentoring and partnership program for new teachers. There are three two categories of staff eligible to participate in these programs.
1. New to Teaching (Mentor/Protégé): This is a mentoring program with trained mentors working with new staff members called protégés. This automatically includes all staff members entering the district with no teaching experience. Eligible protégés will be identified by August 15, or as soon as they are hired by the District, in order to receive mentoring support in a timely manner. Five hours of salary credit will be awarded to each protégé for participation in the mentoring program.
Mentoring and Partnerships. Contingent upon securing grant funding, the District will offer a mentoring and partnership program for new teachers. There are two categories of staff eligible to participate in these programs.
1. New to Education – 1st year – (Mentor/Xxxxxx): This is a mentoring program with trained mentors working with new teachers called mentees. All teachers entering the district without at least one full year of full-time teaching experience will be required to participate in the first year mentoring program. Xxxxxxx will be identified and notified by August 1, or if they have not been hired by that date, as soon as they are hired by the District, in order to receive mentoring support in a timely manner. Every applicant for a teaching position with the district who would potentially be eligible will be informed of the mentoring program prior to acceptance of such a position.
2. New to Education – 2nd year – (Mentor/Mentee): This is a follow-up mentoring program required for teachers who have completed the first-year mentoring program. These mentees will be identified and notified by August 1, in order to receive mentoring support in a timely manner.
3. The mentor program will be evaluated annually. Additionally, the Association or the district will conduct an exit interview/survey for those who voluntarily leave the District. If done by the Association, the District will provide the Association with the names and addresses of the affected mentees and colleagues on or before the last day of school.
4. A New Teacher Professional Development Team annually will develop the program of professional development to support new teachers in their first through fourth years in the district. The New Teacher Professional Development Team shall be comprised of three representatives of administration, selected by the superintendent, and three REA members, selected by the REA president. Other administrators and REA members may attend and participate as needed, but will not be entitled to vote. Attendance at workshops and other events created by the New Teachers Professional Development Team is mandatory for all teachers in the first and second year mentor program, as well as for teachers new to education when they started with the district who are in their third and fourth years with the district. Teachers who have prior experience but are new to the Rockford Public Schools, may at their option attend these workshops and professional development events.
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Mentoring and Partnerships. Contingent upon securing grant funding, the District will offer a mentoring and partnership program for new teachers. There are two categories of staff eligible to participate in these programs.
1. New to Education – 1st year – (Mentor/Xxxxxx): This is a mentoring program with trained mentors working with new teachers called mentees. All teachers entering the District without at least one full year of full-time teaching experience will be required to participate in the first year mentoring program. Xxxxxxx will be identified and notified by August 1, or if they have not been hired by that date, as soon as they are hired by the District, in order to receive mentoring support in a timely manner. Every applicant for a teaching position with the District who would potentially be eligible will be informed of the mentoring program prior to acceptance of such a position.
2. New to Education – 2nd year – (Mentor/Mentee): This is a follow-up mentoring program required for teachers who have completed the first-year mentoring program. These mentees will be identified and notified by August 1, in order to receive mentoring support in a timely manner.
3. The mentor program will be evaluated annually. Ad- ditionally, the Association or the district will conduct an exit interview/survey for those who voluntarily leave the District. If done by the Association, the District will provide the Association with the names and addresses of the affected mentees and colleagues on or before the last day of school.
