tailieunhanh - Beginner Teachers in South Africa

Beginner Teachers in South Africa is the first wide-scale study of teachers in the first three years of their careers and offers substantive evidence suggesting the need for interventions to support them. Based on research undertaken in five South African provinces selected because of their relatively high absorption of beginner teachers, it examines the perceptions of novice teachers about their own skills and competencies and conversely, the perceptions of school managers about their performance | TEACHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA SERIES BEGINNERTEACHERS IN SOUTH AFRICA SCHOOL READINESS KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Free download from hsrc PRESS FABIAN ARENDS MAKHOLA PHURUTSE Koninkrijk Oou der Nederlanden Free download from Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa First published 2009 ISBN soft cover 978-0-7969-2242-7 ISBN pdf 978-0-7969-2259-5 2009 Human Sciences Research Council Copy-edited by Lee Smith Typeset by Simon van Gend Cover by Fuel Design Printed by Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver Tel 27 0 21 701 4477 Fax 27 0 21 701 7302 Distributed in Europe and the United Kingdom by Eurospan Distribution Services EDS Tel 44 0 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 0 20 7379 0609 Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group IPG Call toll-free 800 888 4741 Fax 1 312 337 5985 contents Free download from Tables and figures vi Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Executive summary ix Acronyms and abbreviations xii 1 Introduction I Conceptual framework 3 Literature review 5 Summary 7 2 Research methodology 9 Introduction 9 Research questions 9 Research design 9 3 Data presentation and analysis 17 Data from beginner teachers 17 Discussion of data from beginner teachers 19 Data from school managers 23 4 Conclusion 41 Implications for policy-makers and school managers 42 References .