Title: Retaining High-quality Teachers
Summary: Jesse Solomon, Director of Boston Teacher Residency, talks about Boston Public Schools and a program called the Boston Teacher Resident program. This model uses the medical student field model of mentoring in the workplace providing key concepts behind teacher retention, statistics of the success of this program and key aspects of the program itself.
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Category: Institutional Source. A congressional hearing in front of a committee.
What is it? I found this as an online document that relays the information provided at the congressional hearing in front of a senate committee for health, education, labor and pensions.
Publication Information: FDCH Congressional Testimony. March 6, 2007.
Author: Jesse Solomon, Director of Boston Teacher Residency.
Accessed: January 29, 2009
Support: This does not provide any supporting commentary. I am guessing since it is a testimony of the program by the program director he is just listing off things that are in front of him without having to reference where the information is deriving from. I have to question the reliability of the information considering no references or support is provided. More research will be necessary to decide whether or not it can be deemed reliable.
Source Analysis: The audience is the committee senate health, labor, education and pension. The general audience who would be seeking this information would be people interested in information regarding ideas about teacher retention. They would mainly break down to educators looking for better structural retention plans.
Usefulness: The information within this document could prove to be very useful. I am still uneasy that there are no other sources talking about this but believe more research can either make or break this piece of information. The article helps reassure readers by bringing in another strategy that has very old roots in the medical student programs geared for interns. With the model having a solid base structure to work with the program seems to be another good idea for the implementation of teacher retention. The controversy of this issue seems to be the style that will better the education system across the U.S. and not an issue of whether teacher retention is actually a problem that needs to be addressed.
Works Cited: I found this article as I was searching through the EBSCO host off of the library database page.
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