About NEST
NEST provides support and training for novice teachers to become the leaders every disadvantaged school needs
NEST in Numbers
What is NEST?
The Challenge
A high share of novice teachers work in challenging school environments, such as schools with a higher number of migrant students and/or students from low income homes.
Evidence shows that mentorship is critical for supporting novice teachers in disadvantaged schools, yet structured induction programmes remain rare and only a few novice teachers have access to high-quality mentorship.
The Novice Education Support and Training (NEST) project consortium believes that effective mentoring of novice teachers could save time and costs, increasing effectiveness, job satisfaction, retention and attractiveness of the profession.
NEST will design, pilot and demonstrate that its underpinning adaptive mentoring model is a relevant and effective solution to increase effectiveness, motivation and ultimate retention of novice teachers working at disadvantaged schools.
We will track NEST’s progress and outcomes throughout its two year pilot, conducting ongoing and final assessments of skills, mindsets and knowledge of mentors, novice teachers in intervention and control groups.
About NEST
Discover the NEST challenge, purpose and approach
Partners
Get to know the team behind the NEST project
Resources
Learn from the NEST results, they are open and available
Get in touch
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Project Timeline
February 2021
2022
2023
February 2024
Latest News
NEST at the World Education Research Association conference in San Diego (USA)
The NEST project will be presented at the World Education Research Association conference, the world’s largest gathering of education researchers, that will take place in
60 Experts from the Regional Inspectorates of Education Will Be Trained to Effectively Support Novice Teachers in Bulgaria
The training program is part of a major European project with three partners from Bulgaria – the Ministry of Education and Science, Education Trade Union,
Adaptive Mentoring: a solution for Novice Teachers in the EU
OECD data from 2018 demonstrates that “while novice teachers represent 22% of the teacher population on average across OECD countries, a higher share of them
