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Is Mentoring Enough? An Examination of the Mentoring Relationship in the Pilot Two-Year Kentucky Teacher Internship Program
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Evans-Andris, Melissa; Kyle, Diane W.; Carini, Robert M. – New Educator, 2006
This article examines a pilot program's mentoring component involving first-year interns and veteran teachers in relation to new teachers' needs and effects regarding support and professional development. Mentoring along with delayed work requirements and evaluation increased interns' adjustment to teaching. However, emotional and technical…
Descriptors: Mentors, Pilot Projects, Internship Programs, Professional Development
Mentoring the New Professional in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education: The Kentucky Teacher Internship Program.
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McCormick, Katherine M.; Brennan, Sharon – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2001
This article describes the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program, a year long supervised internship that provides support and assistance to all of Kentucky's first-year interdisciplinary early childhood educators by a team of resource teachers, principals, and teacher educators. Implementation challenges are discussed, as well as suggestions for…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Educational Administration Reform in Kentucky: A Beginning.
White, Ernest R.; Lawrence, Paul R. – 1986
Prompted by the national educational reform movement, a Kentucky committee, mandated by the general assembly, called in 1983 for changes in the preparation and certification of school administrators. This study presents a background of the mandates, details of the certification changes, the board of education's study of administrative preparation…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Administration