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Education reforms require profound knowledge and orientation on continuous professional development from teachers. To ensure this, it is important to have flexible and effective system for teacher training and professional development.
Teacher induction system is a mechanism for regulating a teacher profession and prerequisite for entering pedagogical practice.
According to the law on General Education, after acquiring a relevant academic qualification, a teacher shall go through an induction period and sit for a teacher certification exam to ensure that his/her knowledge and skills are compatible with the teachers’ professional standard.
Inductee is a beginning teacher. Under the law on General Education, an inductee is a beginning teacher, who teaches temporarily at a comprehensive school in order to acquire a professional teacher status.
Teacher’s professional success very much relies on the experience gained in the first years of teaching practice at school. In addition, during the first years of teaching, a teacher faces a widest range of challenges. That is why it is important that the beginning teachers get the help of experienced, highly competent teachers- mentors. A mentor is a qualified and experienced teacher, ready to assist an inductee in developing pedagogical skills, demonstrating his/her own abilities and obtaining positive teaching experience. Apart from that, an induction program will assist teachers to professionally connect with the young colleagues
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