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Nielsen, Diane Corcoran; Barry, Arlene Lundmark; Addison, Ann Brickey – Action in Teacher Education, 2007
Hiring new teachers and continuing their professional growth so that they remain in the profession and become effective teachers have been a challenge for decades. Research suggests that induction programs can achieve these outcomes if they are highly structured, include mentoring, focus on professional learning, and emphasize collaboration that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Mentors, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Effectiveness
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Wood, Frank H. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1995
The "Ziegarnik effect," a learner's tendency to recall uncompleted tasks longer than completed ones and to remember failures more easily than successes, is applied to improving programs for the subgroup of students with emotional/behavioral disorders who show little benefit from special education interventions, and to teacher…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Failure
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Spuhler, Lee; Zetler, Alan – 1995
The purpose of the final report on the Montana Beginning Teacher Support Program (BTSP) is to provide a comprehensive description of all phases of the program as it was conducted from 1992 through 1995. The purpose of the BTSP was to study the effect of a formal mentorship relationship between master teachers (mentors) and teachers in their first…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education