Bridge over Troubled Water: Induction pointers for Teacher leadership

The first years of teaching are decisive to shape teachers’ motivation and attitudes, as adaptive professionals that respond fast changing contexts. This career stage should provide acculturation in collaborative professional communities discuss tackle growing challenges for learners’ improvement. Induction support can be key the personal, social, development beginning teachers, fostering their leadership influence initiate practice change. It needs flexible sensitive specific education contexts, but it benefits from transversal principles grounded on common European policies. embedded a continuum approach links other stages - relying broad, teacher requirements. COVID 19 crisis has foregrounded competences teachers require ensure equitable learning. Among Key Competences, Personal, Social Learning Learn Competence Digital play crucial role grappling with distance unpredictable conditions. While competence is fully acknowledged professionalism, now becoming motivation, innovation, distributed leadership, face problematic scenarios.