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Showing posts with label early career teacher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early career teacher. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 March 2016

BCECTA newest newsletter available now!

I am the president of an amazing group of teachers that support early career teachers and on-call teachers. We are the newest PSA and part of the BCTF.

Check out the latest newsletter from the BC Teachers' Federation's [BCTF] Provincial Specialist Association [PSA] the B.C. Early Career Teachers' Association [BCECTA]

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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

The importance of mentorship for early career teachers



Miami teacher, David Cutler, writes about the importance of mentorship for early career teachers:

Today, my success as a teacher -- not to mention the lives of all the students I hope I have inspired and changed in my seven years in the classroom -- is directly related to the caring, high-quality mentorship I received during my first year of teaching. Without it, I would have become another statistic, quitting after my first few years on the job.

David talks about a mentor as confidant, observer, and confidence builder. I am part of our district mentorship program and enjoy hearing about other programs and how mentors have positively helped new teachers.

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