Support Early-Career Educators
NJ Project Examples to Support Early-career Educators
There are two dynamic opportunities to enact SEE within your chapter:
1. Create an Early Educator Award. The rewards are many. The recipient of the award is on the brink of entering our profession and is a potential member .As such the new sister is a young and an active educator. Your chapter forms a connection with a New Jersey university/college and with the Dean of Education. The DKGNJ State Organisation is recognized in the graduation program given to students, parents, and the faculty, thereby promoting our society.. Most of all, your chapter helps a female graduating senior to embark on a career in education, especially those most in need of financial assistance, to defray the costs of the state testing and certification.
2. Provide an annual membership to BookSmiles for $25.00. Assist and impress a new educator with a gift that provides children's books for their classroom. A practical way to help educators and their students while promoting our society.
Contact Cathy Fortunato, State EEC Chairperson, for any additional information regarding the two suggestions.
Download the zip file with sample documents >
If your chapter has another specific project to enact SEE, contact me and your project can be added to the website to share throughout the state.
1. Create an Early Educator Award. The rewards are many. The recipient of the award is on the brink of entering our profession and is a potential member .As such the new sister is a young and an active educator. Your chapter forms a connection with a New Jersey university/college and with the Dean of Education. The DKGNJ State Organisation is recognized in the graduation program given to students, parents, and the faculty, thereby promoting our society.. Most of all, your chapter helps a female graduating senior to embark on a career in education, especially those most in need of financial assistance, to defray the costs of the state testing and certification.
2. Provide an annual membership to BookSmiles for $25.00. Assist and impress a new educator with a gift that provides children's books for their classroom. A practical way to help educators and their students while promoting our society.
Contact Cathy Fortunato, State EEC Chairperson, for any additional information regarding the two suggestions.
Download the zip file with sample documents >
If your chapter has another specific project to enact SEE, contact me and your project can be added to the website to share throughout the state.
To share our vision, Leading Women Educators Impacting Education Worldwide, and strengthen our Society, the Educational Excellence Committee established Supporting Early-career Educators (SEE) as its second international project during the 2012 International Convention in New York City.
Why is our support needed? Education is a challenging career, and retaining quality teachers is an issue worldwide. According to Richard Ingersoll, the rate in U.S. of beginning teachers leaving the profession in the first year is a little more than 10%; with 33% leaving by Year 3 and 46% by Year 5. In addition, around 15% of U.S. teachers overall leave the profession each year.
Schools that have depended on a core of veteran teachers are seeing those teachers retire. As much is expected of a new teacher on the first day of school as is expected of a 30-year veteran. Teachers supporting teachers is crucial. Of the first year teachers assigned a mentor in 2007 – 2008, around 8% left the profession in 2008 – 2009. Of the first year teachers not assigned a mentor in the same years, about 16% were not teaching in 2008-2009 and about 23% were no longer teaching in 2009 – 2010. (Beginning Teacher Attrition and Mobility, Institute of Education Science, 2011, p. 3)
John F. Kennedy said, “In each one of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefits for everyone and a greater strength for our nations.”
We truly can make a difference with our support. SEE encourages members/chapters to be creative in support of early-career educators with a variety of strategies, such as
• giving support for phone calls and visits,
• helping with lesson plans and bulletin board ideas,
• offering advice on classroom management and parent-teacher relations; and
• providing support in appropriate and practical ways.
Why is our support needed? Education is a challenging career, and retaining quality teachers is an issue worldwide. According to Richard Ingersoll, the rate in U.S. of beginning teachers leaving the profession in the first year is a little more than 10%; with 33% leaving by Year 3 and 46% by Year 5. In addition, around 15% of U.S. teachers overall leave the profession each year.
Schools that have depended on a core of veteran teachers are seeing those teachers retire. As much is expected of a new teacher on the first day of school as is expected of a 30-year veteran. Teachers supporting teachers is crucial. Of the first year teachers assigned a mentor in 2007 – 2008, around 8% left the profession in 2008 – 2009. Of the first year teachers not assigned a mentor in the same years, about 16% were not teaching in 2008-2009 and about 23% were no longer teaching in 2009 – 2010. (Beginning Teacher Attrition and Mobility, Institute of Education Science, 2011, p. 3)
John F. Kennedy said, “In each one of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefits for everyone and a greater strength for our nations.”
We truly can make a difference with our support. SEE encourages members/chapters to be creative in support of early-career educators with a variety of strategies, such as
• giving support for phone calls and visits,
• helping with lesson plans and bulletin board ideas,
• offering advice on classroom management and parent-teacher relations; and
• providing support in appropriate and practical ways.
