Transcription of New Teacher Induction
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3 New Teacher InductionThe Foundation for Comprehensive, Coherent,and Sustained Professional DevelopmentHarry K. WongInduction is a comprehensive process of sustained training and supportfor new teachers. The process of Induction has been growing success-fully for the past twenty years, and this chapter provides an opportunityto talk about where we are and where are we going with the training andretaining of new teachers. Let s begin with some startling facts on whynew teachers fail. Thirty-three percent of new teachers are hired after the school yearhas already started, and 62 percent are hired within thirty days ofwhen they start teaching (Kardos and Liu, 2003).
3. Areport from the Public Education Network (2004) on “The Voice of the New Teacher” says, “Although the value of mentoring is indis-putable, the evidence of stand-alone ‘mentoring as induction’ pro-
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