Systemic Support for High Quality Induction Programs
Standard 1
Mentor Selection, Development, & Support

Standard 2
Mentoring for Instructional Excellence
Standard 3
Beginning Teacher Professional Development
Standard 4
Program Assessment & Evaluation
Standard 5
100
This person is assigned to mentor not more than one beginning teacher.
What is a school level mentor? (with their own classroom)
100
Mentors move between these three mentoring approaches/stances.
What is Instructional, Collaborative, and Facilitative?
100
On a regular basis, once a week, for at least 1-2 hours at a time to improve instruction and student learning.
How often should a mentor meet with a beginning teacher?
100
Full time/half time teachers who are in their first 3 years of teaching and who hold a state of Hawaii Teacher's License or are working towards licensure.
What is the definition of a Beginning Teacher?
100
At the end of the year, Beginning teachers, Mentors, Principals and IM CAST members complete this online as a source of data for program reflection and improvement.
What is the annual online survey?
200
This person must conduct a minimum of 4 formative observation and feedback sessions annually. 2 of the 4 could be Danielson/EES observations.
Who is the administrator? Principal and/or Vice Principal
200
This is the mentor's primary focus of support for a beginning teacher.
What is improving instruction and student learning?
200
Mentors guide beginning teachers in ______________ instruction to meet the diverse needs of their students and promote high levels of learning.
What is 'differentiating'?
200
Every beginning teacher should participate in both of these orientations.
What are Complex area and school level orientations?
200
These are the individual(s) responsible and accountable for planning, development, progress, communication, assessment, evaluation and overall implementation of the induction program. These people include and may not be limited to, administrators, program coordinators, and lead mentors.
Who is program leadership?
300
This person is responsible for communicating the state vision of induction clearly to all principals and the complex area team.
Who is the CAS?
300
This NTC protocol is possible evidence of mentors setting professional goals aligned with mentor standards.
What is the MAGA (Mentor Assessment for Growth and Accountability)?
300
Mentors use this system of tools to gather data on classroom practice and student learning to guide their work with beginning teachers. (i.e. Collaborative assessment logs, analysis of student work, selective scripting, etc.)
What is Formative Assessment?
300
These teachers are provided with information about Hawaii's cultures and norms as part of their orientation.
What is a beginning teacher new to Hawaii?
300
The success of a quality induction program relies heavily on the effectiveness of this group of people.
What are mentors?
400
The principal respects the confidential relationship between these two people.
Who are the mentor and beginning teacher?
400
This criteria include a range of characteristics that indicate mentoring potential and is clearly articulated by program leadership.
What is mentor selection?
400
Mentors use these standard and a variety of mentoring strategies to guide, refine and deepen their work with beginning teachers to advance teacher practice and student learning.
What are the InTASC standards? (Professional Teaching Standards)
400
Beginning teachers participate in all components of the complex area induction program that includes working with a trained mentor, developing professional growth plan, and participating in ________________________________.
What are Professional Learning Communities? (Beginning teacher PLCs)
400
This documents the amount of time spent and the area of focus of each mentor/beginning teacher conversation. It is an example of possible evidence for the program evaluation component in this standard.
What is the online contact log?
500
The CAS selects and supports this individual who is responsible for all aspects of the complex area induction program.
Who is the IM CAST member?
500
In addition to formal training, mentors participate in this group to refine mentoring skills, advance induction practices, and improve student learning.
What is a mentor forum or Professional Learning Community (PLC)?
500
Mentors will guide beginning teacher(s) in gathering data that will be archived in this.
What is a program completion portfolio?
500
Beginning teachers work with their mentors to develop this plan to assess themselves, set goals and reflect upon their practice.
What is a professional growth plan?
500
"Stakeholders and program leadership collaborate using multiple sources of data to implement changes for program improvement and sustainability of the complex area induction program." is found in this column on the continuum.
What is "systematizing?"
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