This chapter applies to a comprehensive induction program for new teachers. The purpose of this regulation is to provide guidance for local school systems to establish a high quality induction program that addresses critical professional learning needs of new teachers, improves instructional quality, and helps inductees achieve success in their initial assignments, resulting in improved student learning and higher retention in the profession. Recognizing that “one-size-fits-all” induction programs do not meet the needs of new teachers, these regulations establish the components of an induction program, allowing local school systems to build on their current programs.

Authority: Education Article, §§2-205(c), 5-206-1, and 6-202(b), Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: November 26, 1968

Revised October, 1971; September 1, 1975

Amended effective July 1, 1974 (2:1 Md. R. 15) and August 18, 1976 (3:17 Md. R. 916)

Regulation .01G amended effective May 29, 1981 (8:11 Md. R. 975)

Regulation .01G amended as an emergency provision effective July 1, 1982 (9:13 Md. R. 1348); adopted permanently effective August 30, 1982 (9:17 Md. R. 1709)

Regulation .01N amended effective April 4, 1988 (15:7 Md. R. 852)

Regulation .01U adopted effective July 1, 1985 (12:4 Md. R. 360)

Regulation .01-1 adopted effective August 27, 1984 (11:17 Md. R. 1493)

Regulations .01 and .02A amended effective April 21, 1986 (13:8 Md. R. 903)

Regulation .02A amended effective October 6, 1986 (13:20 Md. R. 2211)

Regulations .02A; .06E; .08A-1, B, and E; and .09A, B, and R amended effective August 2, 1982 (9:15 Md. R. 1517)

Regulations .02B and .03C, .09DD-1 amended effective July 1, 1985 (12:13 Md. R. 1281)

Regulations .03C and .09A, B amended effective January 9, 1981 (8:1 Md. R. 20)

Regulation .04A amended effective May 10, 1982 (9:9 Md. R. 911)

Regulations .05; .06A, J; .07A; .08A; .09B-1, DD-1 adopted effective January 9, 1981 (8:1 Md. R. 20)

Regulations .06C, .07E and F amended, and .07G repealed effective August 27, 1984 (11:17 Md. R. 1493)

Regulations .06K and .07A-2 adopted and .07A-1 amended effective June 30, 1986 (13:13 Md. R. 1493)

Regulation .07H amended effective August 18, 1976 (3:17 Md. R. 916)

Regulation .08 amended effective October 6, 1986 (13:20 Md. R. 2212)

Regulation .09 amended effective October 6, 1986 (13:20 Md. R. 2212)

Regulation .09DD-1 amended as an emergency provision effective April 4, 1985 (12:9 Md. R. 807); adopted permanently effective July 1, 1985 (12:13 Md. R. 1281)

Regulation .09DD-1 amended effective January 27, 1986 (13:2 Md. R. 138)

Regulation .09N-1 adopted effective July 1, 1988 (15:5 Md. R. 622) (recodified from Regulation .09O)

Regulations .10—.17 adopted effective July 1, 1987 (14:7 Md. R. 833)

Note: At 15:16 Md. R. 1917 (July 29, 1989), Regulation .08 was amended effective July 1, 1989.

Chapter, Certification, repealed effective January 1, 1989 (15:26 Md. R. 2985)

Amendments to Regulation .08 were incorporated into a new chapter. See COMAR 13A.12.02.

Chapter, Teacher Mentoring Programs, adopted effective July 24, 2000 (27:14 Md. R. 1342)

Regulation .01 amended effective October 9, 2003 (30:19 Md. R. 1334)

Chapter, Teacher Mentoring Programs, repealed and new Chapter, Comprehensive Teacher Induction Program adopted effective August 9, 2010 (37:16 Md. R. 1060)

Regulation .04 amended effective August 22, 2011 (37:18 Md. R. 1013)

Regulation .05 amended effective August 22, 2011 (37:18 Md. R. 1013)

Regulation .06B, F amended effective August 22, 2011 (37:18 Md. R. 1013)

Regulation .07 amended effective August 22, 2011 (37:18 Md. R. 1013)

Regulation .09 adopted effective August 22, 2011 (37:18 Md. R. 1013)

Chapter revised effective November 24, 2025 (52:23 Md. R. 1140)