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Texas A&M and Clear Creek ISD have been working together for the last 4 years creating opportunities for new teachers to have onsite experience.
About the teachers:
- Graduates from the Texas A&M College of Education with outstanding recommendations and high GPAs
- Fully certified
- Interviewed and recommended by Clear Creek ISD Human Resources
The A&M Teachers are closely monitored during their first year of teaching by a district mentor. This mentor provides the following services:
- Meets with teachers prior to the school year to help with classroom set up, curriculum review and professional development
- Helps the teacher develop classroom management expectations and techniques
- Observes and models instruction daily during the first 6 weeks of school
- Monitors teachers weekly throughout the school year with classroom observations, email and phone communication and through weekly journal/reflection assignments
- Formally observes teachers with Texas A&M observation assessment tool (CoPat) 4 times during the school year. This includes pre-observation and post-observation meetings
- Develops individual teacher coaching plans
- Attends all parent orientations, open houses, and conferences
- Critiques weekly lesson plans
- Helps teacher disaggregate testing data
- Helps the new teacher with issues such as TAKS, tutoring, parent communication, and modifications /adaptations for students with special needs
- Covers the teacher’s class while he/she observe other teachers or while the teacher completes individual student assessments)
- These new teachers will also have onsite mentors to answer campus specific questions
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