Learning from Teaching Experiences: Novice Teachers' Thoughts

This paper aims to investigate novice teachers' thoughts about their initial years. Research on this area indicates that novices have various and numerous problems when they begin to teach. To this end, an interview was carried out with fifteen novice teachers who are enrolled in a master program in education and teaching different subject areas. Content analysis was utilized on the data and findings were categorised under the themes. Novice teachers' thoughts about teaching profession, their struggles in teaching context, motivating factors for teaching, effect of teacher training program and the contribution of post-graduate education on their profession are the main themes emerged from the data. The results provided quiet interesting findings which should be considered by teacher educators, researchers, teachers and prospective teachers who are going to be teachers soon.