TITLE:
Teaching’s Characteristics: Novices Talk about Teaching
AUTHORS:
Ditza Maskit
KEYWORDS:
Novices, Teaching as a Profession, Written Diaries, Teaching’s Characteristics
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.14,
August
20,
2014
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this
study is to explore common themes emerging from lived experiences of novices’
teachers regarding the main characteristics of the teaching profession as they
surface from their personal diaries kept in the first year of their work.
Findings from the diaries indicate that teaching was described, as an
experiential profession and unique for each teacher. Other characteristics are
direct towards the contextually of the profession, its complexity and its
pluralism. Relating to these teaching’ characteristics before the induction
phase, during the clinical training may reduce the induction' shock, and even
reduce novices’ dropout from teaching.