TxBESS Awareness

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TxBESS Awareness
Jana Stowe, Kim Connelly Debi Price, Cindy Walker
RRISD
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• Nobody starts out as a completely effective and
  creative teacherThe desire to teach and the
  ability to teach well are not the same thing.
  With the rarest exception, one has to learn to be
  a good teacher.
• Herbert Kohl

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What is TxBESS?

• An initiative of the Texas State Board for
  Educator Certification (SBEC) to implement a
  beginning teacher support system in order to
  increase beginning teacher retention and
  effectiveness, thus increasing student
  achievement and learning

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TxBESS Program Standards

• Training and ongoing professional development for
  participants
• High-quality mentoring
• Research-based performance standards
• Partnerships among districts, preparation
  programs, local businesses, and communities

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Retention by Teaching Assignment
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Beginning Teachers Want Support

• Almost 90 of beginning teachers said they had
  wanted to have a mentor.
• Beginning teachers said that they wanted
  observation and feedback.
• Beginning teachers said they most needed support
  in
• Curriculum and instruction and
• Discipline management techniques.

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Mentoring Is a Positive Professional Experience

• 75 of respondents said that serving as a mentor
  had helped them improve their teaching skills.
• More than half said it renewed their enthusiasm
  for teaching.
• More than 85 said they either probably or
  definitely wanted to serve as a mentor again.

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Good Teaching Matters

• Children in Tennessee with the least effective
  teachers three years in a row showed achievement
  gains 54 lower than children with the most
  effective teachers.
• Students in Dallas with three consecutive
  ineffective teachers had scores that fell from
  the 60th percentile in fourth grade to the 42nd
  percentile in the sixth grade.

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