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 concludes the second cohort as it enters its next phase
The Novice Educator Support and Training (NEST) project, aimed at enhancing the professional development of novice educators, has successfully concluded its second pilot phase. This
NEST results show promise in Catalonia
Our partners from the Spanish pilot, Empieza Por Educar and the Department of Education of Catalonia, co-organized on June 8th an event to kick off
NEST partners meet in Bucharest to share the preliminary results of the project
The NEST consortium members, involving NGOs and public authorities from five different countries, as well as a teacher union, a schoool association and a university,
