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    The administrator played a role in the teacher's early failures by not providing adequate onboarding support when he was hired late. The administrator should have ensured the teacher received necessary training and worked more closely with him one-on-one. The mentor could have avoided some problems by building a relationship with the administrator for additional support, being more upfront about challenges, and offering specific solutions rather than letting the teacher try to solve issues independently. Overall, both the administrator and mentor failed to adequately support the new teacher from the beginning.

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    The administrator played a role in the teacher's early failures by not providing adequate onboarding support when he was hired late. The administrator should have ensured the teacher received necessary training and worked more closely with him one-on-one. The mentor could have avoided some problems by building a relationship with the administrator for additional support, being more upfront about challenges, and offering specific solutions rather than letting the teacher try to solve issues independently. Overall, both the administrator and mentor failed to adequately support the new teacher from the beginning.

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    The administrator played a role in the teacher's early failures by not providing adequate onboarding support when he was hired late. The administrator should have ensured the teacher received necessary training and worked more closely with him one-on-one. The mentor could have avoided some problems by building a relationship with the administrator for additional support, being more upfront about challenges, and offering specific solutions rather than letting the teacher try to solve issues independently. Overall, both the administrator and mentor failed to adequately support the new teacher from the beginning.

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    Assignment #3

    Read: Retaining Teachers in Challenging Schools Retaining teachers in challenging


    schools.docx
      and pp. 83 – 104 of the text
    Answer the following questions:
    A. What role did the administrator play in the teacher’s early failures in the classroom?
    B. I am varying a little from the story – As a mentor, what would you have done
    differently to avoid some of the cliff-hanging incidents in this story?

    Through reading “Story 2: Fired, Hired, and Inspired” in our textbook, I was able to gain a
    better understanding of the role both administrators and mentors play in the retention of a
    new teacher.
    First, the administrator played a larger hand in the teacher’s early failures in the classroom.
    Mr. Z was hired later than most. While he still would have needed to play a bit of catch up,
    the administrator could have made this transition much easier. The administrator should have
    found a time to give him all the information he missed, and work more one on one with him
    since he was missing essential trainings. Mr. Z did not attend the New Teacher Institute or
    anything in that realm, and the administrator just threw him in without giving him some extra
    supports. Even when the mentor was assigned, it felt as if she was assigned as an external
    support rather than with support from the administrator. The conversations he had with his
    mentor following his class period should have been able to be addressed with his
    administrator two weeks prior. The administrator did not support Mr. Z from the beginning
    and it just set him up for failure. This continued when he offered Mr. Z’s position to someone
    else in October. Clearly the administrator did not want to put any effort into Mr. Z if he has
    this little faith in him so early on. Mr. Z was not failing because he was a bad teacher, he was
    failing because he was working for this administrator who offered no support. Finally,
    leading up to his evaluation and “firing”, the administrator did not go in with solutions.
    Instead of honestly evaluating and talking to Mr. Z, they gave him a bad evaluation and took
    the easy way out.
    I honestly feel a tad confused by this question but will still answer it to the best of my
    capability. I believe there is a lot more that could have been done by the mentor in the
    beginning to avoid some of the incidents that occurred. I believe most of the cliff-hanging
    incidents were really caused by the mentor feeling overwhelmed herself. She never had a
    relationship with the administrator, and when problems arose, she often froze first before
    being able to offer solutions. When the mentor first entered the classroom, she mentioned
    that she knew nothing about physics and just hoped that the teacher did. Throughout this
    whole story, we never really saw the mentor making an effort in this regard and looking more
    into some effective ways to teach science to be more specific to Mr. Z’s needs. I agree that
    the mentor should not have overwhelmed Mr. Z with everything that needed to be improved,
    but it also felt like she was never fully real with him about how many struggles there were.
    Setting small goals was smart and effective, however she never had this difficult talk with
    him and almost set him with unrealistic expectations going into his evaluation. As a mentor, I
    think he needed a bit of a reality check and then her solutions. Instead she just seemed to
    gloss over some of the issues and let him try to solve them on his own, instead of offering
    some solutions for him. I think if she would have been a bit more upfront with him and had a
    relationship with the administrator, he would not have jumped so quickly to quitting. As a
    whole, this mentor teacher really did support Mr. Z and tried to do what was right for him
    and the kids. However, if she had been a bit more proactive from the beginning, I believe
    they could have avoided some of the cliff hanger incidents that occurred within the story.

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