Experience of Elementary School Students of Substitute Teachers: A Case Study

Document Type : Original Article

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1 T.U

2 education- tehran university

Abstract

This study investigates the experience of elementary school students of the substitute teachers throughphenomenological method. Therefore, 31 students, who have had a substitute teacher at least during one term, are selected through purposeful sampling. The data is collected through semi-structured interviews and each student is interviewed about 30 minutes. Yin’s five-step method is used for analyzing the data. The findings shows that the quality of students’ experience from class management and teaching strategies mainly depends on the characteristics of substitute teacher such as level of educational experience, knowledge and social and emotional competencies. In addition, most students are dissatisfied with the reduction of teaching hours of the main teachers. The results of this study indicate that the substitute teachers should be selected carefully and the reduction of teaching hours of main teachers should be reviewed and re-considered for the elementary grades.
 

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