Current through October 16, 2024
Section 10-220a-7 - Placement conditions for cooperating teachers and mentors(a) Beginning teachers shall be placed with mentors under the following conditions:(1) each beginning teacher will be placed with a mentor or a mentor team;(2) placement of a beginning teacher with a mentor or mentor team shall be made as soon as possible after a beginning teacher is assigned to a school building, but in no event, later than ten school days after the beginning teacher has been so assigned;(3) beginning teachers shall not be placed with mentors who will evaluate such beginning teachers pursuant to Section 10-151b of the General Statutes;(4) the district facilitator, at such time and in such manner as the Commissioner shall prescribe, shall provide lists of trained mentors to school administrators to enable such school administrators to match mentors with beginning teachers; and,(5) a mentor and a beginning teacher, in collaboration with the school administrator, may discontinue a placement following a local review and approval under written procedures developed by the district committee.(b) The appropriate administrative official of the teacher preparation program, in collaboration with the district facilitator and school administrator, shall place student teachers with cooperating teachers under written procedures developed by the employing agent.Conn. Agencies Regs. § 10-220a-7