Examining the Perceptions and Experiences of Novice Teachers from the Process of Formal and Informal Identification

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

1 Associate professor, Department of Educational Administration, Ilam University, Ilam. Iran.

2 Associate professor, Human Resource Management, Department of Management, Ilam University, Ilam. Iran

3 M.Sc. in Human Resource Management, Department of Management, Ilam University, Ilam. Iran.

Abstract

Objective: The success of the education system in educating students is significantly influenced by the access of teachers and their participation in quality professional development activities. Among the programs for empowerment and professional development of teachers are holding educational programs to serve or introduce teachers. The teacher is considered the most important person in the curriculum implementation process. Thus it is vital to educate and develop his or her effective careers, which are the starting point for any change. An effective teacher relies on the knowledge and skills required for the teaching profession, and having professional competencies always seek to provide opportunities for learning among students. The main aim of the present paper is to examine the understanding and experience of the lives of novice teachers in the process of introduction to recruitment.
Materials and Methods: The research method is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of the nature of a qualitative research based on the phenomenological approach. All teachers and technical and vocational trainers hired in Ilam province from 2016 to 2019 were selected as population. The sampling method was snowball method In which 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted until the data saturation stage was reached.
The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview in which the output of the interview was coded with the content analysis method, and its output consisted of 6 main categories, 22 sub-categories and 89 concept codes. The validity of the extracted codes was used from the contributors and human resources experts, and in order to ensure the reliability of the research data, the method of repeated study, continuous comparison of data, summarization, and classification of information were used. To analyze the data, a coding procedure based on thematic analysis was used.
Results and Discussion: The results showed that newly hired teachers from the process of introducing the service to the pleasant experiences, unfavorable experiences and legal knowledge and knowledge in the first days of employment as experience. Teachers' expectations of the recruitment justification program include the two axes of needs assessment and job orientation and job orientation, which is the most important issue in terms of needs assessment from the perspective of newly hired teachers and educators. Topics include intra-organizational processes, role-playing training, and organizational learning, including the educational needs of teachers at the beginning of employment. Teachers consider the most important concerns at the beginning of the service, including the two topics of emotional support and justification, and consider factors such as psychological and physical stress, inappropriate organization and poor management as problems and problems from the beginning of employment from the teachers' point of view. As a result, it can be acknowledged that the education system, at the beginning of the new arrival of teachers in the education organization, to hold service courses to prevent complaints caused by the organization's lack of planning and a new perspective. Make employees more pleasant than the organization. Before deciding to hire new teacher, the education organization should consider the required staff and pre-service programs, such as general and specialized training courses, theory and practice for each department.

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