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TEAM

Curriculum Overview

TEAM

(Teacher Education and Mentoring Program)

Overview

In October 2009, Connecticut General Statute, Section 10-145o was passed and called for the establishment of “a teacher education and mentoring (TEAM) program that includes guided teacher support and coaching and the completion of instructional modules” for beginning teachers (http://portal.ct.gov/SDE/TEAM).

The TEAM Program is a two-year induction program for new teachers that includes mentorship and professional development support that new educators need to be successful. TEAM is a professional growth model that incorporates the CT Standards for Professional Learning and provides beginning teachers with multiple opportunities to reflect on their practice, analyze student data and outcomes, and identify areas for growth and improvement that drives their individual professional learning (http://portal.ct.gov/SDE/TEAM).

 

Resources and Guides:

  • Jennifer Ringelheim - TEAM Program District Facilitator

    Email: ringelheimj@wiltonps.org

    Phone: 203-762-3351 ext. 4315

  • TEAM Program Goals

    Beginning teachers must complete up to five professional growth modules focused on the Common Core of Teaching (CCT) domains: classroom environment, planning, instruction, assessment, and professional responsibility. Mentors and beginning teachers work together to identify a need/opportunity for professional learning based on the teacher’s own self-assessment, using the CCT Performance Profiles, feedback from observations conducted by the mentor and/or an evaluator, student data, and established student learning goals.

    1. Classroom Environment (reflection paper)
    2. Planning (reflection paper)
    3. Instruction (reflection paper)
    4. Assessment (reflection paper)
    5. Professional Responsibilities (this module is a facilitated conversation)

    The teacher and mentor develop a professional growth action plan (PGAP). The plan begins with a goal that establishes the focus for professional learning and outlines how the teacher will develop new learning and apply it in practice. At the culmination of each module, the teacher writes a reflection paper, documenting how the new learning was developed, what the teacher learned, how it changed the teacher’s practice, and the positive outcomes for students (http://portal.ct.gov/SDE/TEAM).

    Successful completion of the TEAM Program is required for eligibility to move from an Initial Educator Certificate to a Provisional Educator Certificate.