Need of Induction Program for Novice Teacher: A Narrative Study

Abstract

This research study entitled Need of Induction Program for Novice Teachers: A narrative study was carried out to find out the need of induction program for secondary level teacher’s professional development keeping into considerations, five secondary level English who got induction or orientation program from their head teacher or mentor were selected as the sample by using purposive non-random (convenient) sampling strategy. Data for this study were collected by conducting semi-structure interview with the selected participants. I visited and revisited the study area to collect and validate the data. After the collection of the data they were categorized into seven things from the study it was found that the Novice Teacher perceived induction program very essential to train, support, retain and learn more to be an expert teacher in their profession. They viewed that induction program is important to promote lifelong skills, to get orientations on teaching and improve their performance. The present study consists of five main chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study along with the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter contains the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the study for the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the chapter third includes design of the study, population, sample, sampling strategies, source of data (primary and secondary), data collection tools, data collection procedure and ethical consideration. Likewise, chapter four deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. Finally, fifth chapter incorporates with the findings based on the analysis and interpretation of the data and recommendations for the policy level, practice level and further research have been made. And finally references and appendices are presented to finalize the study and making the research valid.