Problems and difficulties that first year teachers encounter in their classrooms are different from those of experienced teachers. Thus, in-service programs that are mostly designed for experienced teachers are not appropriate for the beginning teache...
Problems and difficulties that first year teachers encounter in their classrooms are different from those of experienced teachers. Thus, in-service programs that are mostly designed for experienced teachers are not appropriate for the beginning teachers. This study focused on the effect of an induction program to beginning teachers' concept map about teaching plan, decision making, and sense of efficacy.
The subjects were 30 beginning teachers. The data were analyzed with mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results showed that 1) after the induction program beginning teachers used more cross-links between hierarchies and relationships and considered integration among hierarchies and concepts more; 2) beginning teachers had a tendency that they considered as many variables as possible while they solved the problems and conflict: 3) induction program increased feeling of self efficacy of novice teachers.