This study was conducted to investigate how new elementary school teachers work at
schools in terms of their school administrative work performance. In order to examine this
research question, an interview was conducted on 8 new elementary school teachers in
public elementary school in Sarang. The main results are as follows:
First, new elementary school teachers were experiencing difficulties in performing school
work. They experienced difficulties because they did not know how to complete their school
works and when they were set in charge of other miscellaneous work duties asides from
their official work. Also they had feeling of doubt when they faced with reality that they
have to neglect the class for handling other works. Second, new elementary school teachers
were coping with difficulties in their own ways. They put their efforts to improve their
ability to perform work or got help from senior teachers. In other cases, they avoided
circumstance that additional work that does not belong to them is given to them by
developing own image of them performing work. Third, new elementary school teachers
wished to have some help to perform school work smoothly. First of all, they wished things
such as appointing mentor teacher in current school. Also, they wanted education office to
improve problem in current training system. Also, they wished university of education to be
changed to help them to have cognition about school work.
The following implication was suggested based on these research results. First, work
assignment has to be made based on wish and work ability of new elementary school
teacher. Second, distribution of work that is additional to official division of work has to be
made fairly at school. Third, systematic education on school work including current
education has to be made from educational university. Fourth, senior teachers have to be
assigned for new elementary school teachers to get help anytime.