S5 E6 - Keeping Your Team's Bus on the Road When Onboarding New Staff

The Structured Literacy Podcast

In this episode of the Structured Literacy podcast, Jocelyn addresses the challenges of successfully onboarding new staff members while maintaining instructional quality in schools that have been implementing structured literacy approaches. She emphasises that you cannot catch new staff up to the rest of the team all at once, regardless of their experience level, and advocates for managing cognitive load by focusing on essentials first and building knowledge systematically over their first 12 months, with coaching being crucial for transferring professional learning into classroom practice.

Jocelyn discusses different support needs for early career teachers, experienced teachers new to the school, and teachers moving to unfamiliar grade levels, stressing the importance of aligned mentors who fully support the school's approach and creating structured resources like video libraries of excellent practice to provide clear examples rather than relying on potentially inconsistent peer observations.

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1. Supporting New Teachers for Success (00:00:00)

2. Simplifying Professional Development for Success (00:13:28)