The Importance of Training Novice Teachers and Developing Professional Skills

Abstract

Teaching is one of those that nearly everybody thinks her or she can be better experts. Teachers playing an extraordinary and an important part in the lives of their students for the formative years of the development, and many faced various challenges. This study aims to clarify the suffering that novice teachers face in their academic career and the importance of the training and their development. It also reveals that the academic courses of university do not prepare new teachers adequately. The results obtained through a complementary research tool; a questionnaire for novice teachers. The findings indicate that the hypotheses being stated came to be confirmed. In that university courses provide only a theoretical background on the teaching profession without stressing its pedagogical implications and consequently it does not prepare future teachers adequately. By the end recommendations and suggestions were made to learn better how to use effective professional development strategies.