This study focuses on the doubts about the professional learning community of Master Teacher who are doing their best so far, and learns what and how beginner teachers experience while participating in the professional learning community jointly with ...
This study focuses on the doubts about the professional learning community of Master Teacher who are doing their best so far, and learns what and how beginner teachers experience while participating in the professional learning community jointly with Master Teacher, and the experience progresses in the socialization of the teaching profession. To this end, the researcher selected two of the seven beginning teachers of the professional learning community of elementary schools who worked as Master Teacher for two years from March 2020 to December 2021 as research participants and analyzed the narrative for 5 months. As a result of the study, the two beginning elementary school teachers went through a difficult journey to become teachers, and faced a reality that was different from their thoughts in the teaching field, and a future to go to. I experienced a warm 'hospitality'. In addition, two beginning elementary school teachers realized how important it is to 'establishment of educational philosophy' by having an opportunity to look back and reflect on themselves in a professional learning community with a Master Teacher. Furthermore, these beginning elementary school teachers 'expansion of teacher’s learning' by actively participating in teacher meetings outside the school in search of other learning beyond what they learned together in the professional learning community inside the school. Through the narratives of these two first-time elementary teachers, it was confirmed that the professional learning community with the Master Teacher served as a 'stable guide' in the process of socializing the teaching profession and establishing the teacher's identity.