The New Teacher Center is focused on teacher and administrator induction. America’s schools are now welcoming record numbers of new educators. Typically, the newest teachers are placed in the most difficult classes in the neediest schools. Not surprisingly, many of their educational careers will not survive this trial by fire.

In working with new teachers and new principals, the NTC induction programs help novices not only to survive their early years, but to emerge as confident, skilled professionals. The NTC’s unique induction model helps novice educators maintain a strategic focus on student learning and classroom instruction with the guidance of highly trained and supported mentors. The NTC works with new and veteran educators, researchers, and policy makers to support the development of strong induction models by providing resources and programs that address effective mentoring and supervision practices, issues of equity, using student data to improve instruction, and strategies for meeting the needs of English Language Learners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome  to the    

New Teacher Center at the

University of Memphis!

Affiliated with the New Teacher Center at the University of California-Santa Cruz, the New Teacher Center at the University of Memphis provides a program of integrated support and assessment and creates an atmosphere that encourages teachers to develop norms and standards of professional collegiality, inquiry, reflection and assessment. This process of formative, ongoing assessment within a community of practice is an essential component of teacher development and school reform. NTC new teachers develop the expectation that teaching is collegial, that teaching is a continuous cycle of instruction, assessment, reflection and planning, and that learning to teach is a lifelong process.