SEDL - Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Lessons from the Experience in Texas

Table 3.1: Student Enrollment and Teacher Population of Responding School Districts

Table 3.2: Race/Ethnic Characteristics of Students and Teachers of Responding School Districts and Statewide

Table 3.3: Teacher Tenure at Responding School Districts

Table 3.4: Student Characteristics in Responding School Districts

Table 3.5: Perception of Effects of Teacher Attrition on Responding Districts

Table 3.6: Motivations for Implementing Teacher Mentoring Activities

Table 3.7: Year in which Districts Began Mentoring Support

Table 3.8: Administrative Level with Primary Responsibility for Teacher Mentoring Activities

Table 3.9: Role of District Administration in Mentoring Activities 27

Table 3.10: Resources Used to Operate Mentoring Programs

Table 3.11: Mentor Training

Table 3.12: Outside Financial Support Received by Districts for Mentoring Activities

Table 3.13: Outside Non-financial Support Received by Districts for Mentoring Activities

Table 3.14: Barriers to Implementing Mentoring Activities

Table 3.15: Assessment of Mentoring Support

Table 3.16: Supports That Would Improve Mentoring Program

Table 3.17: Most Important Results of Mentoring Support for Beginning Teachers

Table 3.18: Success Rating of Mentoring Activities

Table 4.1: District Academic Profiles

Table 4.2: District Student Accountability Data Percentages

Table 4.3: Student Demographic Characteristics--Percentages by School Type

Table 4.4: Student Achievement--Passing Percentages by School Type

Table 4.5: Teacher Demographic Characteristics-Percentages by School Type

Table 4.6: District-Level Retention/Attrition Percentages by School Level and Teacher Characteristics

Table 4.7: Chi Square Test Results of School and Teacher Characteristics by District-Level Teacher Retention/Attrition

Table 4.8: Campus-Level Stability and Turnover by School and Teacher Characteristics

Table 4.9: Chi Square Test Results of School and Teacher Characteristics By Campus-Level Teacher Stability/Turnover

Table 5.1: Key Features of Mentoring Programs in Case Study Districts

Figure 4.1: Percent of leavers, movers, and stayers by district from 1998-99 to 1999-2000

Figure 4.2: Percent of district attrition and campus level turnover by district