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Educators to share how to keep, train, mentor new teachers
Craig Chamberlain, Education Editor
(217) 333-2894; cdchambe@illinois.edu
4/10/2002
EDITORS/REPORTERS:
For additional information, contact Jane Quinlan with the Champaign-Ford
Regional Office of Education, 893-4921.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Educators from Illinois and other Midwestern
states will be in Urbana this Thursday and Friday (April 11-12) to share
resources and best practices on how to keep, train and mentor new teachers,
and prepare them for state certification.
The third annual "Successful Transitions" conference will
be at the Holiday Inn, 1001 Killarney, Urbana.
Participants will have a chance to learn about how to build learning
communities among new and experienced teachers, how to organize and
evaluate induction programs for new teachers, and how to find resources
for their induction and mentoring efforts.
The conference agenda will begin with an opening session at 10 a.m.
Thursday, which will include a "state of the state" report
on induction and mentoring programs by Frank Llano, manager of teaching
and leadership for the Illinois State Board of Education. Following
Llano will be a keynote by Tom Ganser, professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, addressing the national picture.
Sponsoring the event are the Midwest Association of Teachers Educators
(ATE), the Illinois State Board of Education; the Illinois, Indiana
and Minnesota ATEs; and the Partnership for Professional Development.
The partnership includes the University of Illinois and its Partnership
Illinois initiative, the Illinois Education Association, the Illinois
Federation of Teachers, the regional offices of education in Champaign-Ford,
Macon-Piatt and Vermilion counties, and local school districts.
