Question One - What are the requirements to complete this training?

This is a one-time training you must complete in order for your school to participate in the Teacher Support System (TSS). Once you’ve completed it, we’ll have a record of your participation and you will be all set to provide mentors for your first-year teachers from then on.

After working your way through this blog, you will need to send me an email that includes answers to the following questions:

1. How closely do the mentors you have chosen for the first-year teachers in your building fit the guidelines for selecting a mentor?
2. Do you have any concerns about how you will meet the requirements of the Teacher Support System program?
3. Does your building presently have a culture that is supportive of new teachers? If so, what are the characteristics that make it so? If not, what can you as the building leader do to make it a better place for new teachers to work?
4. What are your personal plans for how you will support the new teachers in your building?

Please complete the activities, answer the questions and send the email by Friday, October 5, 2018 to this address: ecjacobson@nd.gov