Section 1 D — Supervised Clinical Experience — What if our programs do not include induction and mentoring? / Who is required to answer that question?
Mentoring/induction support is not formally defined in Title II, but it is essentially the coaching and instruction that a candidate receives while serving as the teacher of record in a classroom.
For traditional programs, there likely will not be any required mentoring/induction support, since the candidates in traditional programs are typically not considered the teacher of record in a classroom and traditional programs tend to instead require student teaching and other forms of clinical experience. However, for alternative programs which offer pedagogy instruction and courses while the candidate is actually the teacher of record in a classroom, there might be a significant amount of mentoring/induction support as part of their preparation program.
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