Head teacher's experiences of novice english teacher's preparation for promary level

Abstract

The thesis entitled ‘Head Teachers’ Experiences of Novice English Teachers’ Preparation for PrimaryLevel’ is aimed to find out the support of head teachers to novice regarding pedagogy and theproblems faced by head teachers while recruiting novice teachers. Keeping the objectives inconsideration, 10 head teachers and 5 primary teachers from different schools were sampledthrough non-random purposive sampling procedure. In-depth interview was used as a primarytool of data collection. After analysis and presentation of data, it has been found that noviceteacher needs effective mentoring; principal leadership plays key role in retaining noviceteachers and the novice teachers' attrition degrade the quality of education.This thesis consists of six chapters. Chapter one is introductory part which includes backgroundof the study, statement of problem, research questions, significance of the study, and delimitationof the study. Similarly, chapter two includes review of the related literature, thematic review, and literature gap. The third chapter deals with methodology which includes research design. Data collection tools, sources of data, and work plan. Likewise, chapter four includes dataanalysis and presentation which includes novice teacher needs, reasons for teachers’ attrition, professional preparedness of novice teachers, impact of novice teachers' attrition, and principalleadership. Similarly, chapter five has discussion under which novice teacher needs effectivementoring, and principal leadership plays the key role in retaining novice teachers arementioned. Chapter six includes conclusions and implications at three different areas i.e., pedagogical implications, policy implications, and further research. Finally, the references andappendices are included.