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New Teacher Induction & Assignment Strategies for Accelerated Learning

Accelerate new teachers' skills and match them with the best assignments for retention of quality teachers. Explore key elements of induction, assignment, and tracking retention, aligning training with standards, and influencing support at school level.

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New Teacher Induction & Assignment Strategies for Accelerated Learning

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  1. Capturing Our Learning Induction & Assignment

  2. Overview • Purpose:To accelerate a new teacher’s skills, as well as match them to the best assignment, to ensure retention of quality teachers • Key Elements of Induction & Assignment • Inducting New Teachers • Assigning New Teachers • Tracking New Teacher Retention • Aligning New Teacher Training with Performance Standards • Influencing New Teacher Support at the School Level See the Teacher ABC Tool and Executive Summary of the Teacher Puzzle Pieces for additional information Urban Schools Human Capital Academy

  3. Key Research • Induction can improve both student achievement and teacher retention Ingersoll & Strong, 2011 • Diversity matters when assigning teachers • Black and low-performing elementary students appear to benefit most from being taught by a teacher of the same race Egalite, Kisida, Winters, 2015 • No matter how you “define” teacher effectiveness, low-income, minority and lower achieving students end up with the least effective teachers Goldhaber, Lavery, & Theobald, 2015 • Value-added • Teacher experience • Licensing scores Urban Schools Human Capital Academy

  4. Metrics Key metrics to understand performance in this function include: • Percentage of new teachers - by Provider - with effective or higher ratings at the end of Years 1, 2, and 3 (VI.B) • Percentage of new teachers in high-needs schools (IV.C) • Percentage of probationary teachers non-renewed for low performance prior to being granted tenure (VI.B) • For new teachers specifically – retention rate of highly effective teachers, by high- and low-need schools • % of low performers exited • % of high performers promoted/ retained Urban Schools Human Capital Academy

  5. Key Content Induction & Assignment

  6. New Teacher Effectiveness Accelerating teaching skills Teachers grow most in effectiveness in years 1-3 - so this is an important time to invest in new teacher development. Source:. Kini & Podolsky, 2016.

  7. New Teacher Attrition Up-to-date research Recent research shows new teacher attrition is about 30% over 5 years in the original school. Source: Institute of Education Sciences, 2015 and Education Week, 2015.

  8. Induction as a Strategy Improving New Teacher Effectiveness and Retention Retention • Over five years, 86% of new teachers with a mentor retained, compared with 71% without a mentor Effectiveness • 68% of surveyed National and State “Teachers of the Year” ranked access to a mentor as one of the top 3 supports they received as a novice teacher

  9. Tools and Activities

  10. Tools for Extending the Learning Additional Resources –HRinEd.org • District v. School Roles in Supporting Induction • Activity Overview • Topical Planning • Calendar Planning • Creating a Successful Onboarding Experience • HR Surveys Tool • New teacher questions highlighted

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