During the internship year, every new teacher (intern) in the Kentucky Beginning Teacher Internship Program is assigned a resource teacher who serves as a mentor and model. The resource teacher is responsible for assisting the intern in instructional activities and techniques, classroom management, tests and interpretation of test results, teaching exceptional children, working with parents, planning, scheduling, organization, and identification of needed resources. A comprehensive, structured telephone survey was conducted to evaluate the resource teachers' performances of their responsibilities. A total of 98 teachers were interviewed. Specifically, the objectives of this research study were to: (1) identify the responsibilities which resource teachers performed frequently or in which they felt deficient; (2) identify training needs of the resource teachers; and (3) identify procedural, administrative, logistical, and other similar problems and determine their impact on the resource teacher's performance. Findings are selectively reported and discussed according to these research objectives. (JD)