Top-Notch Teachers

This being my eighth year in education I feel I have a pretty good idea of what teachers around me are highly qualified and which ones aren't. To me, the ones that are highly qualified have more than content knowledge in the area they are teaching and tons of college credits. Highly qulified to me means they are also willing to change with the times. In my building, we have a poor mentoring system because we have so-called highly qualified teachers doing the mentoring, but just because they have a master's degree or they've been doing it for twenty years should not make them highly-qualified. I feel our new teachers have really been done a disservice because they come in with so much energy and enthusiasm for teaching and I have already noticed with a few of them they've lost that because they are so overwhelmed and don't have the support there that they needed in order to start them off on the right foot. As a future administrator, I feel this is a very important program and see what an important role it can play in a building so I plan to spend a lot of time with the program so that it's effective.