Abstract
SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND VOCATIONAL PROBLEMS THAT THE NOVICE TEACHERS FACE
This study aims to find out the problems of the primary school teachers, who novice teachers, face at social, cultural and vocational life. At the study, at which qualititative research method is applied, interlaced single state layout has been used as the layout. Working group of this study is composed of 30 primary school teachers teaching in Şanlıurfa Province. There have been observations at the classrooms where 10 teacher candidates –members of the working group- teach. Survey data has been acquired with semi-structured interviews.
The problems that teacher candidates face have been studied at 3 phases as pre-vocational, during vocational life and environmental factors. This study reveals the problems that appear during undergraduate study of the teacher candidates since some of the subjects of primary school teaching curriculum do not take place at educational curriculum of 1st to 4th grades and the problems that there are no course contents for legislations and official correspondences at undergradute program. The observed problems about starting vocational process of the teacher candidates are that they aren’t guided enough by administrators and counselors, they remain incapable at classroom management and education process, they can’t cope with discipline problems. The problems of those teachers related with the environmental factors are seen as social and cultural adaptation and the structure of the school where they teach. These problems result from personality of teacher candidate, his/her educational life, parents, environment and organizational structure.
Keywords
Novice teacher, period of teacher candidate, prevocational training, time of start to teach, social
