{"id":8573,"date":"2020-01-02T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/02\/teacher-retention\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:27","slug":"teacher-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/teacher-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring program: Key to addressing teacher retention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erikah Haavie in Furman&#8217;s Department of Education contributes an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvillebusinessmag.com\/2020\/01\/02\/293940\/a-strong-mentoring-program-is-key-to-addressing-low-teacher-retention-rates\">Greenville Business Magazine<\/a> about how the university prepares teacher candidates and supports early career educators. Among the strategies employed to stem low retention rates in the state is\u00a0Furman&#8217;s 20-year-old Teacher to Teacher Residency Program. The first of its kind in South Carolina, the program provides 18-month-long experiences in public schools for teacher candidates, who work closely with both classroom teachers and Furman faculty in partnering with school districts.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her role with the Department of Education, now celebrating 100 years, Haavie plans professional development workshops for local educators for the Upstate Schools Consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erikah Haavie in Furman&#8217;s Department of Education contributes an article in Greenville Business Magazine about how the university prepares teacher candidates and supports early career educators. Among the strategies employed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,28,43,74,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-education","category-graduate-studies","category-graduate-studies-in-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}