Learning to Teach During Novice Years

Abstract

The novice teacher's training is playing an important role in the education reform. In Xi'an Gaoxin No.1 Primary School, the school leaders host a pilot way of training the new teachers. The new teacher training of the school is special and meaningful. The training not only includes professional skill, student management, and teacher's ethics, but also includes art, calligraphy, reading, and so on. The authors invested 73 teachers (male=9, female=64) who had got the job one year ago. After one year's training, 73.97% of novice teachers express full agreement about the training and are quite satisfied with the training. Comparing with the beginning of the career, the novice teachers have improved the teaching abilities a lot.