Talent Management
Protocols
Competency-Aligned Teacher Interview Questions and Activities
Summary
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) has a wide range of resources for educational leaders focused on selecting and developing early-career educators. With a focus on educator competencies, TNTP developed a set of educator competencies, along with a list of possible interview questions to help understand the skills of applicants around these competencies. The document lists the broad set of competencies, and for each, identifies descriptive criteria, possible indicators that would be identified during the selection or hiring process, possible interview questions around each competency, and observable activities (such as role-plays, action tasks, or presentations) that would illustrate the level of competence of each candidate.
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Leadership and/or Talent Management teams might choose to use this resource along with the additional resources provided in order to create or refine their teacher selection process.
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Teacher Talent Toolbox (2020). Competency-aligned interview questions and activities. TNTP, Inc., available at https://tntp.org/teacher-talent-toolbox/view/competency-aligned-interview-questions-and-activities.
Creating a Talent Management Calendar Protocol
Summary
This resource supports districts with limited time and people with a protocol for creating a calendar of critical talent management actions. Talent calendars reflect the district’s annual goals and organize the activities leaders can focus on at critical times of the school year. The calendar helps leaders make decisions about how and when to allocate resources, ensures that the talent work is done at the most ideal time, and allocates time to look ahead and plan implementation of the work.
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A district leadership team or talent management team might use this resource to develop their own talent calendar. The team may want to consult their district goals and talent management data to determine a talent management overarching goal or goals. The team might then want to reflect on what talent management activities are currently in place and then modify as needed (to align with the overarching goal) and follow the protocol steps to create the talent calendar.
The resource also includes ways to support the calendar becoming a useful tool by engaging stakeholders. The team may want to consider ways to embed the talent calendar into current meeting and communication structures. Additional resources to support a talent calendar can be found on the EdFuel Talent Playbook website.
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Adapted from: https://www.edfuel.org/how-we-work/edfueltalentplaybook/
Planning a Scope and Sequence for Beginning Teacher Professional Learning & Development
Summary
Strategies to attract, retain, and support beginning teachers are key in staffing each classroom. Great Teachers and Leaders Center free online toolkit, Mentoring and Induction 2.0 Supporting Teachers in High-Need Contexts, includes ready to use resources to support meaningful conversations with district teams and/or building teams about the design and implementation of high-quality mentoring and induction programs. The toolkit additionally summarizes research and best practices for beginning teacher development.
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This resource focuses on beginning teacher professional learning and development with onboarding, mentoring, new teacher professional learning communities and ongoing professional learning opportunities. A district team or a building team might use the facilitation guide along with supporting materials to plan meeting agendas with the intent to examine each protocol to develop and implement a comprehensive system of beginning teacher support. An ISD or MDE facilitator might use the facilitation guide and resources to co-plan with a district or building leader as they seek to develop and implement cohesive beginning teacher support structures.
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Great Teachers & Leaders a American Institutes for Research Mentoring and Induction Toolkit 2.0 https://gtlcenter.org/technical-assistance/toolkits/mi-toolkit/module-4