New Teacher Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers and school leaders
Thirty schools across Singapore have started on an initiative called Skillful Teaching and Enhanced Mentoring (STEM) launched in July 2011 by the Singapore Ministry of Education, school improvement organization Research for Better Teaching, Inc. (RBT), and the New Teacher Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers and school leaders.

Singapore, ranked one of the world’s best-performing school systems by McKinsey & Company, is committed to continually building a strong school system. To this end, one key lever is the professional development of teachers. The new STEM prototype orientates the teachers’ focus to the classroom, and will create a formal and comprehensive system of new teacher support and mentoring for about 240 new teachers within 30 carefully-selected schools, and build on the Ministry of Education’s efforts to maximize the potential of their students and teachers.

“My New Teacher Center colleagues...