Challenges Faced by Novice Teachers

Abstract

This thesis entitled Challenges Faced by Novice Teachers in secondary level is an attempt to find out the main challenges of novice teachers in teaching and learning English as a second language.To meet the objectives of the study eight novice teachers from eight different schools and six expert teachers from different colleges were selected using judgmental nonrandom sampling procedure. The collected data were analyzed using the observation check list and the interview recorded.The main finding challenges are found in managing classroom and maintaining discipline along with subject matter knowledge and novice teacher were criticized by students as being unfair or inexperienced. This thesis consist of four chapters.The first chapter deals with general background, literature review, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter,methodology deals with sources of data,population of the study,sampling procedures, tools for data collection, process of data collection,and the limitations of the study. The third chapter includes analysis and interpretation of the data. The analysis has been carried out under the subheading such as item wise analysis of classroom observation and item wise analysis and interpretation of recorded interview.The fourth chapter is about findings and recommendations followed by references and appendices.