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Beloit outlines mentor program, university partnerships and student-teacher pipeline
Summary
The district described mentor/mentee supports, training for new-teacher mentors (NTC training), building ‘buddies,’ and arrangements with UW–Whitewater and Beloit College that produced hires from recent student-teacher cohorts.
Rochelle Elliott, director of early learning and professional development for the School District of Beloit, presented the district’s mentor/mentee program and its student-teacher placements at the Sept. 16 meeting.
Elliott told the board that the district rewrote a mentor handbook in 2020 and now requires systematic mentoring for teachers in their first three years, along with a “building buddy” for staff with four or more years of experience who need orientation to district processes. She said some mentors hold New Teacher Center (NTC) training through CESA 2, a two-year program, and that the district currently has about 25 NTC-trained…
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