Professional Development of Junior High School Intern Teachers in the Context of Multiple Ways of Teachers Preparation: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Internship and Models for Hiring Beginning Teachers

Effective questionnaires of 928 scholarship interns, 296 non-scholarship interns, and 799 members of The Teachers Review Committees at junior high schools during 1997-98 academic year. A comparative study was conducted for the relative effectiveness of internship between scholarship and non-scholarship interns.

At the same time, an investigation was done to obtain the information about the present operations of Teachers Review Committees in selecting and screening beginning teachers, and related suggestions for making constructive changes. Sixteen recommendations are made in this study, which are based upon some main conclusions. Among them, 4 different models for hiring beginning teachers are presented here, in order to cope with different situations of various junior high schools.