Novice Early Childhood Education Teachers' Challenges and Intern Teachers' Concerns
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purpose of this study is to shed more light into intern early childhood
education teachers’ concerns before entering teaching profession and novice
teachers’ challenges in their first years of teaching. In order to achieve this
task, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with five novice
teachers and five intern teachers in a district in the southeast of the United
States. All interviews audio recorded then transcribed verbatim. The researcher
utilized qualitative methodology for this study. Findings revealed that intern teachers were well aware
of difficulties that they might encounter in their future profession and they
took some precautions to cope with them. Novice teachers on the other hand
declared that teaching young children is harder than their initial
expectations. Their challenges were
originated from teacher education program, lack of parental support, and
teaching very young age groups. Nevertheless, teachers’ motivation was really
high in this study and if they receive support from school principal and
colleagues they easily overcome difficulties that they faced in their first
years of teaching.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Eğitim Üzerine Çalışmalar
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Zeynep Temiz
YÜZÜNCÜ YIL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
29 Aralık 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
9 Mart 2017
Kabul Tarihi
25 Ekim 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 13 Sayı: 3
Cited By
Göreve Yeni Başlayan Öğretmenlerin Yaşadıkları Güçlükler
Pamukkale University Journal of Education
https://doi.org/10.9779/pauefd.684913