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[quote=Anonymous] :P [quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mentor program in MCPS is not helpful.
It added a ton of stress and felt like information overload in my first year. I was too tired to absorb anything useful from my mentor teacher and she kept assigning busy work that I had to get done on top of my teaching responsibilities. It also felt punitive as they have to recommend you continuing for your second year so I was too scared to share any serious problems with her. [/quote]

Do you cooperating teacher? A mentor can’t assign you anything since they do not evaluate you.[/quote]

There is a mentor teacher program in MCPS. It is mandatory for teachers who are coming in without any training. These mentor teachers are not at your school and their full time job is to train/evaluate teachers in their first year. They pop in and do monthly evaluations, etc. I did not find it helpful and it just added to the stress. It was actually the worst part of my first year. The teacher had no clue about my content area and couldn’t help me with it [/quote]

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