COE associate dean participates in national panel discussion on supporting new teachers

New teachers face a number
of challenges in the first few years of their careers as they take the instructional strategies and subject-area content they learned in
college and apply it to their own classrooms.

 

The College of Education's Network for Enhancing Teacher Quality (NET-Q) project features several initiatives and programs designed to support these novice teachers in their burgeoning careers.

 

Gwen Benson, COE associate dean for school and community partnerships and principal investigator for the NET-Q project, discussed how NET-Q aids new teachers at a panel discussion and webinar entitled, "A System Approach to Building a World-Class Teaching Profession: The Role of Induction," in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4.

 

"We are an urban university in a partnership with a number of metropolitan and rural school districts and other agencies with a common goal which is to recruit and support new teachers in high-needs schools," she said. "All of our partners are involved with induction and mentoring."

 

Hosted by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the New Teacher Center, the panel discussion focused on induction, or the ways school systems support new teachers. Benson was joined on the panel by Laurie Calvert, teacher liaison for the U.S. Department of Education; Richard Ingersoll, professor of education and sociology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania; Ellen Moir, executive director of the New Teacher Center; and David Osta, associate director of the New Teacher Center. 

 

To read more about the panel discussion, click here.  

 

Photo caption: Gwen Benson (second from left) speaks during the panel discussion and webinar as Laurie Calvert, Richard Ingersoll, Ellen Moir and David Osta listen.