| Summary: | It is important that the principal, in his execution of the management task, should take
cognisance of the fact that the newly-appointed non-beginner teacher must be offered
assistance. As a new member on the staff, he needs guidance regarding the policy and
expectations of the school despite the experience he gained in the previous school.
The management style of the principal of the school where he is newly employed may
differ radically from that of the principal of the previous school. Briefly, in his staff
development task, the principal should design a programme for inducting the newly-appointed
non-beginner teacher into his school.
In Chapter ONE, the newly-appointed non-beginner teacher was defined as a teacher
who comes from one school and accepts a post in another school for the first time.
This teacher is the one who may have been transferred or resigned from school A and
who has accepted a post in the next school. Furthermore, in this Chapter the
statement of the problem was identified and the concepts were clarified.
The SECOND Chapter highlights the problems that are encountered by the newly-appointed
non-beginner teacher. Such problems may be personal problems or
problems that are administrative in nature or caused by the senior colleagues and the
principal. The problems that are caused by ignorance of the school climate, school
culture and school community are also portrayed in this Chapter. A distinction is also
made between business management problems and the school management problems.
In Chapter THREE the focus of the discussion is based on the induction of the newly-appointed
non-beginner teacher to avoid adjustment problems of the teacher. The
roles played by the principal, the deputy principal, the H.O.D., mentors and other
senior teachers are emphasised.
The data supplied by the principals and the newly-appointed non-beginner teachers
are empirically analysed and interpreted in Chapter FOUR.
Chapter FIVE highlights the recommendations based on the findings derived from the
previous Chapters. === Thesis (MEd (Onderwysbestuur))--PU vir CHO, 1997
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