LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON TEACHER READINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

本研究的主要目的是探讨师范大学的大学生如何学习教育学知识，如何发现自己的教师资质，以及在最初几年中影响其专业发展的重要因素。实习教师到学校任教前最担心的是教学方法和实践.通过对实习生日记中情感内容的分析，发现实习生在五周的教学实践中有明显的情感变化.通过比较小学教师和初中教师的心理压力，发现初中教师的心理压力比小学教师小。

The main purpose of this project is to clarify how the college students in the teacher training university will learn the pedagogical knowledge and find their own aptitude for teachers, and make clear the important factors which will influence the development of their professional development during the first several years.The main results are as follows ;1. The most anxious thing for student-teachers before going to the schools to teach are centering on teaching methods and practices.2. By examining the emotional contents of the diaries of the student-teachers, we found that there distinct emotional changes during their five-week teaching practices.3. By comparing the psychological stress between elementary school teachers and junior high school teachers, we found that the latter teachers feel less stress than the earlier one.