Abstract:

The paper presents partial results of the research project Readiness of students and fresh graduates from the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, for solving educational problems of students (GAJU 154/2016/S). The presented findings are based on a mixed research conducted in the Czech Republic using a questionnaire survey and interviews. The research sample consists of primary school novice teachers (up to 5 years of teaching experience). Quantitative data were collected from 312 novice teachers and qualitative data are based on 10 interviews with novice teachers. The text gives an insight into the role of a school in addressing disciplinary issues, how novice teachers grasp them, who they address if they face the issue, when and what kind of help they need. Novice teachers do not feel sufficiently prepared in this area of their work and they look for solutions of disciplinary issues mostly intuitively. To ensure more complex view of the presentation on the role of a school in relation to discipline, the paper also uses findings from analyses of 30 school prevention programs.

Keywords:

School discipline, novice teacher, teacher, prevention