1. How do you get a new teacher to shine? The importance of quality preparation and mentoring programs.

2. With new teachers quitting the profession only after a few short years, employers are looking at ways of increasing first time teacher success. The goal of this research is to see what strategies are being used to increase the possibility that newly hired teachers will have positive and successful first years of teaching.

3. New Teacher

6. Improve the work environment

8. What is currently being tried to stop the losses of new young teachers? “ The findings […] jibe well with earlier estimates that as many as 30 percent of new teachers quit within their first five years...” (Archer, 1999)

9. Teacher Preparation Programs Mentoring Programs New Teacher

12. Teacher Preparation Programs Mentoring Programs New Teacher Teacher Satisfied With Career Successful Students Retainment of Quality Teachers

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