That's a lesson that the mentor teacher, Irene Collins, insists can only be learned through experience.

A number of teachers at the Village School have participated in this program as mentor teachers.

It is not just the academic areas in which new teachers need help, the mentor teachers say, recalling their own early years.

The education department works with mentor teachers and advisors from schools.

The principal had promised that a mentor teacher would help her.

For a program to work, he said, mentor teachers must be freed from at least 10 percent of their teaching loads.

According to state officials, this process prevents mentor teachers from becoming one more level of administrators.

"The mentor teachers never assume the role of administrators," he said.

It's also a better time to get support from mentor teachers.

He was a mentor, teacher and guiding force of neurologists throughout the United States.