Approach

North Carolina New Teacher Support Program (NC NTSP) is a comprehensive induction program providing research-based curriculum and multiple services to increase teacher effectiveness, enhance skills, and reduce attrition among beginning teachers. The NC NTSP provides each teacher: (1) conference style Institute; (2) intentional, individualized classroom coaching; and (3) aligned professional development sessions.

NC NTSP coaching model considers the contextual factors of the community, school, teacher, classroom environment, and students, using edTPA® constructs to determine the sophistication of evidences produced by the novice teacher and describe support provided by an assigned Instructional Coach. Coaches provide coaching support to help the teacher improve along the effectiveness continuum. Using the NC NTSP Coaching Framework, coaches collect and compare evidences emerging from teaching and learning environments, provide targeted feedback to teachers, identify next coaching steps. Coaches track teacher progress over time through an online data system to capture coaching activities, sophistication of evidences produced in learning environments aligned with edTPA® constructs, length of visit, instructional approach and next steps.

The NC NTSP provides support services for early career teachers during their first three years of teaching.

Each participating Beginning Teacher is supported by a highly skilled instructional coach. The NC NTSP instructional coaches utilize a comprehensive Coaching Framework to support teachers in the critical dimensions of planning, instruction, and assessment. Coaches gather and interpret data, provide and model high leverage and research-based best practices to improve teacher effectiveness and increase student achievement.

We value our teachers and provide individualized and strategic coaching through:

  • Modeling
  • Observations with real-time feedback
  • Planning, instruction, and assessment support
  • In-the-moment coaching
    Data (collection, analysis, and utilization)
  • Weekly individualized face-to-face coaching visits
  • Ongoing hybrid coaching support
    Individualized professional
  • Development (PD) aligned with teacher needs and school/district goals