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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2015.35.4.0557

An Analysis on Beginning Secondary Science Teachers' Problems in their Teaching Practice through Collaborative Mentoring  

Park, Jihun (Pusan National University)
Nam, Jeonghee (Pusan National University)
Kwon, Jeongin (Pusan National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.35, no.4, 2015 , pp. 557-564 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the problems in the teaching practice of beginning science teachers who participated in the collaborative mentoring program to improve their teaching expertise. The participants were six beginning science teachers and six mentors at middle and high school levels. From each beginning science teacher and mentor teacher, journals, one-to-one mentoring records and transcripts, interviews and questionnaires, and transcripts conducted at the beginning, middle and the end of the mentoring program were collected. Seven aspects of the beginning science teachers' problems in their teaching practice were identified. The result showed that mentee teachers didn't set up specific learning objectives and they organized and presented lesson contents without considering students' proficiency level. Also, they found it hard to prepare for the lessons irrelevant to their major field of study and they tended to use convergent questions more than divergent questions. Mentee teachers tend to give teacher-centered rather than student-centered teaching. Beginning teachers' recognition of their problems in their teaching practice tends to lead changes in their teaching practice. Some of the problems that mentee teachers showed could be overcome if they recognized the problem through the collaborative mentoring program, but if not, it tends to remain throughout mentoring program.This study also highlighted the importance of reflection on beginning science teachers' practice.
Keywords
collaborative mentoring; beginning science teacher; teaching practice;
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