Mentorship Policy and Early Career Mentorship Policy
Nechako Teachers’ Union
Mentorship Policy
(Revised 2022)
1. Nechako Teachers' Union members (full or part-time and TTOCs) can generally expect to be funded for one or two days of mentorship in a school year. If more time is requested or required, the request will be considered, upon further application.
Mentorship funds can be used for:
-release time for one-to-one peer mentorship (e.g.: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being; SOGI topics; curriculum; TTOC planning tips; report card writing tips, etc.)
2. Whenever possible the mentorship partnership will both be funded for their TTOC.
3. We need information regarding the plan of the pair engaging in mentorship. Therefore, please be sure to talk to each other and have a clear plan before you apply. Details should be sent to the Mentorship chair in an email. Both mentorship partners should confirm the planned mentorship with the Mentorship chair prior to any approval (sometimes the planned activity is only known about by one of those to be involved!).
4. In addition to the email, please fill out a form so the Treasurer has a paper trail and knows that you have been approved for a TTOC. Without that faxed/scanned form, we cannot pay the TTOC and cannot proceed. The form is on the NTU website: http://www.nechakoteachersunion.com/downloads
Send the application to the Mentorship chair via scanned email.
5. Give reasonable notice. Once the plan is in place, give the Mentorship Chair at least 5 (five) full working days to approve the plan. Remember to book any TTOC’s as well. A week or longer turnaround is ideal.
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Nechako Teachers' Union
Early Career Mentorship
(February 2022)
Money to be accessed from the Provincial bargaining Letter of Understanding No. 16(2019-2022) Re: Early Career Mentorship.
1. Access to funds will be as follows:
1. First year teachers:
i) Access to 3 (three) days each released for member and a mentor teacher.
ii) When at least 2 (two) days of mentorship have been accessed, the early career teacher will be reimbursed for up to $500 in teaching resources* (a one-time receipt submission must be received by the NTU Mentorship chair at, or prior to, the NTU Annual General Meeting in May for that school calendar year).
2. Second year teachers:
i) Access to 2 (two) days each released for member and a mentor teacher.
ii) When at least 1 (one) day of mentorship has been accessed, the early career teacher will be reimbursed for up to $300 in teaching resources* (a one-time receipt submission must be received by the NTU Mentorship chair at, or prior to, the NTU Annual General Meeting in May for that school calendar year).
3. Third year teachers:
i) Access to 1 (one) day each released for member and a mentor teacher.
ii) When at least 1 (one) day of mentorship has been accessed, the early career teacher will be reimbursed for up to $150 in teaching resources* (a one-time receipt submission must be received by the NTU Mentorship chair at, or prior to, the NTU Annual General Meeting in May for that school calendar year).
2. Two hundred dollars ($200) per early career teacher mentored will be provided to the mentor teacher, for teaching resources* (a one-time receipt submission must be received by the NTU Mentorship chair at, or prior to, the NTU Annual General Meeting in May for that school calendar year).
*Teaching resources could be: membership to a Professional Specialist Association; subscription to a teacher journal/website; electronic teaching resources; books; computer hardware (e.g.: external storage unit); or educational software/apps.