NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06C .0381
Plain English summary
This regulation requires all public school units to establish and maintain a Beginning Teacher Support Program (BTSP) and an approved BTSP Plan meeting 14 enumerated requirements covering mentor assignment, orientation, professional development, and evaluation. Full-time beginning teachers pursuing a continuing professional license must participate in the BTSP for three years, with a year defined as working full-time for six or more calendar months in a fiscal year. The Regional Education Facilitator team monitors compliance on a five-year cycle, requiring work plans and follow-up visits for any noncompliant areas.
Key requirements
- All public school units must have a Beginning Teacher Support Program (BTSP) and a Beginning Teacher Support Program Plan (BTSP Plan) that has been approved by the public school unit and by NCDPI.
- Align with BTSP Standards, which include promoting the commitment of all stakeholders in seeing mentoring and induction programs succeed.
- Completing the Recent Graduate Survey by the BT and the Employer Survey by the principal of the school by the end of the first year of teaching as required in G.S. 115C-269.35.
- Provide an orientation for every BT within the first two weeks of work for the BT.
- Develop a professional development plan (PDP) for each BT as reviewed in Rule .0383 of this Section.
- Assign every BT a mentor who meets the requirements set forth in Rule .0384 of this Section.
- Provide support and training to mentors.
- Complete any required or prescribed professional development for BTs.
- Provide a recognized process for conducting observations and summative evaluations for all BTs.
- Plan for participation in the annual BTSP Peer Review Process.
- Provide written statement on how personnel files for BTs are filed and secured.
- Plan for a transfer of BT files to subsequent employing public school units and non-public institutions in North Carolina.
- Document local board of education approval of the BTSP Plan.
- All full-time BTs who are pursuing a continuing professional license must participate in a BTSP for three years.
- A full-time BT is a person employed to fill a vacancy whose regular work week is the number of hours established as full-time for the class of work assigned, but not less than 30 hours per week.
- For the purposes of this Rule, a 'year' is defined as working in a full-time permanent position for six or more calendar months during a North Carolina fiscal year.
- The Regional Education Facilitator (REF) team shall monitor the implementation of the BTSP Plan over a five year cycle.
- If any areas of noncompliance arise, the public school unit must submit a work plan to address those areas, including strategies and timeline.
- The REF team must conduct a technical assistance visit one year after monitoring the BTSP Plan to see if the public school unit has implemented and completed their work plan.
Affected parties
- Public school units
- Beginning teachers
- Mentors
- Principals
- Local boards of education
- Regional Education Facilitator teams
- NCDPI
- LEAs