temiz, zeynep van yüzüncü yıl university - faculty of education, Van, Turkey

Novice Early Childhood Education Teachers Challenges and Intern Teachers Concerns

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The 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.

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Early childhood education , novice teachers , intern teachers , first year of teaching

Mersin University Journal Of The Faculty Of Education

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