No Mentor Teacher For You !
Written by Candi Peterson, WTU General VP
So it seems there has been another round of DC teachers being excessed by the District of Columbia Public Schools. Inside sources report that ten teachers were excessed on July 16, 2011 from the DCPS Mentor Teacher program (formerly known as the Helping Teachers program) . This leaves approximately fifteen DCPS teachers to mentor first and second year teachers citywide in the District.
Given that the research is full of literature and researchdocumenting the importance of mentor teachers, DCPS couldn’t have picked a worse time to reduce their already scanty mentor teacher department. The Center
