GCCC EDUCATOR PREPARATION INSTITUTE PROGRAM

E.P.I. MENTORING and NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHERS

The GCCC EPI program implements a mentoring approach in an effort to link candidates transitioning to teaching with experienced and certified educators.  The cornerstone of this element of the program is the completion of a variety of artifacts by the EPI candidate to represent achievement of competency in skills identified with the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices (FEAPs). 

The EPI program will select quality mentors.  National Board Certified Teachers represent the best of what Bay and surrounding counties have to offer, making ideal role models for those transitioning to a career in teaching.

If you are a National Board Certified Teacher, these hours can be counted toward your mentoring hours in partial fulfillment toward the mentoring stipend as long as the EPI student is currently a classroom teacher.  If you choose to be an EPI mentor, you would be assigned a candidate(s) seeking certification in your grade/subject.  That candidate would be required to teach a minimum of 10 hours in your classroom, or at a classroom in your school, with you observing.  You would be required to complete a Professional Development Scale that documents competencies in the FEAPS.  Again, these hours can be counted toward your required observation hours.

We sincerely hope you will choose our EPI program to in part meet your mentoring hours.  Please click the NBC Mentor Application button located in the upper left of this page to apply for an EPI Mentoring assignment. 

We sincerely appreciate your interest in the GCCC EPI program. 
Feel free to contact us at 850.769.1551 ext. 3393,
or email Teresa Salter at tsalter@gulfcoast.edu.