1. Read the article about the advantages of induction and mentoring programs for beginning teachers and decide what the main point is in each paragraph. Memorize the italicized words and phrases. The impact of induction and mentoring programs for beginning teachers. For decades, education researchers and reformers have called attention to the challenges encountered by newcomers to school teaching. However, traditionally teaching does not have the kind of support, guidance, and orientation programs for new employees − collectively known as induction. Although elementary and secondary teaching involves intensive interaction with youngsters, the work of teachers is done largely in isolation from colleagues. This isolation can be especially difficult for new teachers, who are often left on their own to succeed or fail in their own classrooms (a "lost at sea" or "sink or swim" experience). Perhaps not surprisingly, teaching is also traditionally characterized as an occupation with high levels of attrition among newcomers, and teacher turnover is especially high in the first years on the job. Moreover, beginning teachers, in particular, report that one of the main factors behind their decisions to depart is a lack of adequate support from the school administration. These are the kinds of occupational ills that effective employee orientation and induction programs seek to address, and in recent decades a growing number of school districts and schools have developed and implemented induction support programs for beginning teachers. The theory behind induction holds that teaching is complex work and that preemployment teacher preparation is rarely sufficient to provide all of the knowledge and skills necessary to successful teaching, and that a significant portion can be acquired only while on the job.
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