October, December, February, March workshops for new teachers

November 1 – Mentor and new teacher complete Domain One:  Planning

January – Administrator conducts SSO1 Cycle #2

February 15 (or 90 days after hiring date) – Principal completes Induction Program Completion form and sends to Staff Development

April 1 – Principal completes Professional Education Competence Verification* form, if needed, and sends to Personnel. These forms are in your new teacher blue folder.

All first year teachers will follow the guidelines of the Alachua County Teacher Induction Program. Two FPMS observations, a formal appraisal form and a PDP (see below) are required.

Often the people you want as mentors are the people who are doing everything else as well. Also it is often impossible to have the perfect match between protégés and a first-rate mentor who teaches the same grade-level and /or subject, is located in the same wing of the building, and possesses a compatible personality. One possible solution is to match a mentee to several different mentors who offer support in various specialized areas, such as:

    From this approach the new teacher benefits from more specialized expertise and the opportunity to observe several different teaching styles, precisely what many mentoring experts believe a new teacher needs most.

from Creating a Teacher Mentoring Program http://www.neafoundation.org/publications/mentoring.htm