Improving Student Teaching
Last week, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released a study reporting that many of the nearly 200,000 new teaching candidates each year were paired with ineffective mentors during their student teaching experience.
Student teaching is usually the last requirement for a prospective teacher. Many schools require students to spend their last semester gaining real-world experience teaching in a school; an established teacher will serve as a student teacher's mentor.
Among the report's findings: There were not enough qualified teachers willing to mentor