Wisconsin Teacher Quality
Initial Educator Support Seminar Resources
A wealth of resources and information was recommended to participants at the Initial Educator Support Seminar in June 2007. These resources on initial educator and mentoring research, policies, programs, and effectiveness were selected by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ) and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Available recommended resources from NCCTQ follow.
Resources From National Comprehensive Center on Teaching Quality
Teaching Policy to Improve Student Learning: Lessons From Abroad—The Aspen Institute
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/atf/cf/ %7BDEB6F227-659B-4EC8-8F84-8DF23CA704F5%7D/ Ed_Lessons_from_Abroad.pdf
Teacher Induction in the Midwest: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio—New Teacher Center, May 2005
http://www.newteachercenter.org/pdfs/MWPolExecSum06.pdf
Is Mentoring Worth the Money? A Benefit-Cost Analysis and Five-Year Rate of Return of a Comprehensive Mentoring Program for Beginning Teachers—The New Teacher Center, 2007
http://homepage.mac.com/dbyrum/TIRHandbook/TIRInterestingInfo/ Is_Mentoring_worth_the_Money.pdf
Induction, Mentoring, and Teacher Retention: A Summary of the Research—The New Teacher Center, July/September 2005 (The New Educator, 1(3), 181–198) [available at a charge]
http://www.newteachercenter.org/cgi-bin/norti_area/research.cgi
What Are the Effects of Induction and Mentoring on Beginning Teacher Turnover?—American Educational Research Journal, 41(3), 681–714, Fall 2004
http://epa.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/26/3/681
Designing Effective Professional Development: Lessons From the Eisenhower Program—U.S. Department of Education, October 1999
http://www.ed.gov/inits/teachers/eisenhower/designlessons.pdf
Professional Development and Teacher Learning: Mapping the Terrain—Educational Researcher, 33(8), 3–15, November 2004
http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/ Journals/Educational_Researcher/Volume_33_No_8/02_ERv33n8_Borko.pdf
Research Matters/Improving Teacher Induction—Educational Leadership, 62(8), 76–78, May 2005
http://mt.educarchile.cl/archives/Induccion.pdf
Supporting Beginning Teachers With Heart and Mind: A Decade of Lessons Learned From the Santa Cruz New Teacher Project—The New Teacher Center
http://www.newteachercenter.org/article7.php
Resources From the Wisconsin DPI
Quality Induction: An Investment in Teachers—The New Teacher Center
http://www.newteachercenter.org/article1.php
The Cost of Teacher Turnover in Five School Districts: A Pilot Study—National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
http://www.nctaf.org/resources/demonstration_projects/ turnover/documents/CTTFullReportfinal.pdf
Making the Case for Teacher Induction—How High-Quality Support for New Educators Can Strengthen Teacher Quality in Illinois—The Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefdn.org/pdf/InductionCase.pdf
Supporting a High Quality Induction Program—The Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefdn.org/pdf/InductionChecklist.pdf
Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality—The Education Trust, June 2006
http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/ 010DBD9F-CED8-4D2B-9E0D-91B446746ED3/0/TQReportJune2006.pdf
Eight Questions on Teacher Recruitment and Retention: What Does Research Say?—Education Commission of the States, September 2005
http://www.ecs.org/html/educationissues/teachingquality/ trrreport/home/TeacherRecruitmentRetention.pdf
Induction Into Learning Communities—National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, August 2005 http://www.nctaf.org/documents/NCTAF_Induction_Paper_2005.pdf
State-Level Policy Considerations to Increase Student Learning—The Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefdn.org/pdf/PolicyConsiderations.pdf
The information on this website was provided by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
