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Induction
for Novice
Teachers:
The Facts
What is New Teacher Induction?
Teacher induction is a process — a comprehensive, coherent, and
sustained professional development process — that is organized by a
school district to train, support, and retain new teachers and
seamlessly progress them into a lifelong learning program.
The Need
The Effect
“Up to 30% of new teachers leave the
profession within the first five years of their
career in Minnesota. Such turnover creates a
revolving door effect, especially hard-to-staff
districts, which can slow both student
achievement and other school reform
efforts.” -Ingersoll and Smith, 2003
“...the importance of having an effective
teacher instead of an average teacher for 4
or 5 years in a row could essentially close
the gap in math performance between
students from low-income and high-income
households.”
-Hanushek, Kain, and Rivin, 2001
“Beginning educators, on average, are less
effective than their more experienced peers.
Research has consistently found a positive
relationship between years of teaching
experience and higher student achievement,
with teachers who have five or more years in
the classroom demonstrating greater
effectiveness.” -Goldrick, 2009
“Beginning teachers who received two years
of comprehensive induction support
produced greater student learning gains —
the equivalent of a student moving from the
50th to the 58th percentile in achievement
in math and the 50th to 54th percentile in
reading.”
-Mathematica Policy Research, 2012
“Comprehensive induction for new teachers
results in a return after five years of $1.66 for
each dollar invested. Meanwhile, each
teacher who leaves the profession in a
mid-sized to large district costs between
$10,000 to 18,000 due to recruitment, hiring,
and training costs.”
-New Teacher Center, 2012
“…children who had the most effective
teachers 3 years in a row posted academic
achievement gains that were 54% higher
than the gains of children who had the least
effective teachers 3 years in a row.”
- William Sanders, 1996