How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali

This paper is an attempt to understand beginning teachers’ perceptions of their profession after an eight to ten-week stint of teaching in schools. Beginning teachers of the Faculty of Education at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia, were asked to respond in writing to the simple question: H...

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Main Authors:	Mohamad Dahan, Hazadiah, Ghazali, Siti Salina
Format:	Article
Published:	ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press 2007
Subjects:	Universiti Teknologi MARA
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/319/

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spelling	uitm-3192017-10-30T08:24:49Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/319/ How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali Mohamad Dahan, Hazadiah Ghazali, Siti Salina Universiti Teknologi MARA This paper is an attempt to understand beginning teachers’ perceptions of their profession after an eight to ten-week stint of teaching in schools. Beginning teachers of the Faculty of Education at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia, were asked to respond in writing to the simple question: How does it feel to be a teacher? Using a qualitative approach the data were analysed for insights into the challenges they faced as beginning teachers, their hopes, beliefs and anguish; the understandings they gleaned from training and their interpretation and presentation of these understandings during their interactions with students. The paper explores and describes the beginning teachers’ perceptions of being teachers, the impact of their teaching stints on their perceptions, and the factors they have identified as inhibiting or enhancing their potential as teachers. The paper concludes by discussing ways and means of facilitating their growth into maturity as competent teachers. It focuses on how to ensure the retention of beginning teachers in the profession, the kind of programme required to make them adjust to the culture of teaching as new members of a community of practice, and the kind of support they would require in order to develop their pedagogical skills. ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press 2007-06 Article PeerReviewed Mohamad Dahan, Hazadiah and Ghazali, Siti Salina (2007) How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali. Asian Journal of University Education (AJUE), 3 (1). pp. 63-80. ISSN 1823-7797
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description	This paper is an attempt to understand beginning teachers’ perceptions of their profession after an eight to ten-week stint of teaching in schools. Beginning teachers of the Faculty of Education at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia, were asked to respond in writing to the simple question: How does it feel to be a teacher? Using a qualitative approach the data were analysed for insights into the challenges they faced as beginning teachers, their hopes, beliefs and anguish; the understandings they gleaned from training and their interpretation and presentation of these understandings during their interactions with students. The paper explores and describes the beginning teachers’ perceptions of being teachers, the impact of their teaching stints on their perceptions, and the factors they have identified as inhibiting or enhancing their potential as teachers. The paper concludes by discussing ways and means of facilitating their growth into maturity as competent teachers. It focuses on how to ensure the retention of beginning teachers in the profession, the kind of programme required to make them adjust to the culture of teaching as new members of a community of practice, and the kind of support they would require in order to develop their pedagogical skills.
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title	How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali
title_short	How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali
title_full	How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali
title_fullStr	How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali
title_full_unstemmed	How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali
title_sort	how does it feel to be a teacher? personal journeys and lessons for a malaysian university / hazadiah mohamad dahan and siti salina ghazali
publisher	ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press
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How does it feel to be a teacher? Personal journeys and lessons for a Malaysian university / Hazadiah Mohamad Dahan and Siti Salina Ghazali

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