The final cycle of the mentoring and induction program focuses on your being able to assess your development in content knowledge and pedagogical skills. You will first analyze your current development and then select an area for growth of the remainder of the year. As this is a professional development requirement, sites may have designed the experiences for you to develop skills and knowledge aligned to the sties needs. These may include book studies, lesson study, action research, and other topics. Some sites may not have a formal structure or focus and you will be asked to submit your plan to the lead mentor for review. You cannot be required to select things, such as course work, that would require you to pay for the experience. You are to submit 30 hours of documented work in the area selected.

Step One: Review the Cycle of Growth and Development and Words of Wisdom Forms before you start your analysis.

Cycle of Growth
Words of Wisdom

Step Two: Analyzing Content Knowledge. Use the forms linked here, follow the directions and complete your analysis of content knowledge.

Analysis of Content Knowledge Form

Step Three: Analyzing Pedagogy Development- Repeat the process using the forms to analyze your pedagogical development. 

Analysis of Pedagogy Form

Step Four: Formulate your plan for the 30 hours and complete the checklist to be turned in for review. Submit a copy of the plan to the designated lead mentor.

Checklist for Plan Form

Step Five: Implement your plan for the 30 hours required.

Step Five: Complete your tentative plan for professional development over the next five years and submit a copy to the designated lead mentor.

PD 90 Clock Hours Form

What Should the New Teacher Keep in Their Mentoring Portfolio?

Please place the following items in your portfolio:

• Analysis of Content Form
• Analysis for Pedagogy Plan
• Plan Checklist for the Year
• Tentative PD Plan
• Certificate for Cycle Four

Important Information
   
*** If you move to another district/charter school during the period of time when you hold an initial license, you are required to present the specified documents related to each of the three cycles. Failure to provide the documentation, it may be result in your not securing a teaching position or being required to repeat some or all of the cycle.

After the first year of teaching the new teacher’s portfolio should contain copies of his/her summative DPAS II evaluations. Teachers moving from the initial license to a continuing license must have proof of two successful summative evaluations. Failure to have this part of the program completed may result in a required extension of the initial license of the inability to secure a continuing license.

Please verify with your mentor to assure that you are moving through the correct path of evaluation. You are to receive a summative evaluation at the end of each of your three years on the initial license. A lesson analysis is not a summative evaluation.  In the event that administration does not provide you with a summative evaluation at the end of the year you should notify your site coordinator immediately.   

Applying to be an administrator- To be eligible to become an administrator in Delaware one must have a minimum of three years of teaching experience. This means that you would have to have been successful in the mentoring and induction program which is a requirement during your three initial years.