The Texas Mentorship Training (TMT) is for any school system looking to bolster teacher retention and effectiveness in order to increase student outcomes. School systems participating in the Preparing and Retaining Educators through Partnership (PREP) Mentorship Program will receive PREP Allotment funding to engage in Mentoring Educator Training and District & Campus Leader Design Sessions of TMT. Any PREP Preservice Program Allotment (Residency, Traditional, Alternative) recipient will also have their host teachers, cooperating teachers, and intern mentor teachers engage in Mentoring Educator Training of TMT.

The Texas Mentorship Training (TMT) provides high-quality, research-based training to mentoring educators (mentor, cooperating, or host teachers) and any appropriate district and campus employees who work with or supervise classroom teachers who have less than two years of teaching experience.

The Texas Mentorship Training (TMT) is aligned with state policy, including mentorship policy in TEC §21.458, §21.207, §48.157, and TAC §228f as well as relevant TEA initiatives such as Leadership and Instructional Foundations for Texas (LIFT) Program and the Effective District & Preparation frameworks.

If a mentor teacher is assigned to a beginning teacher after the start of the school year and misses the synchronous training opportunities, the mentor teacher is expected to complete any missed TMT modules asynchronously. The PREP Mentorship Program Manager must request asynchronous approval from TEA. If approved, the the mentor teacher must complete all asynchronous requirements and attend the remaining training synchronously. Asynchronous is only approved for late start Mentoring Educators.