The Niskayuna Mentoring Program
The Niskayuna
Central School District recognizes the
importance of hiring, inducting and retaining
excellent teachers within our system, in order
to maintain our tradition of excellence in
education.
To do this, the
district has a comprehensive, intentional
mentoring initiative.
The following
are goals of the teacher mentoring program:
To increase the retention of promising beginning
teachers.
To transmit the culture of the system to
beginning teachers.
To strengthen teaching performance.
To promote the personal and professional
well-being of beginning teachers.
To strengthen school climate and collaboration
throughout the district.
To continue to build our professional learning
community.
To encourage reflective practice among teachers.
To assist in satisfying requirements related to
Annual Professional Performance Review and
teacher certification.
Want to learn
more about the Mentoring Program? A description
of the program can be downloaded here as a
Microsoft Word document.
Teacher forms
related to the Mentoring Program are also now
online. |
