Annex I. Questions asked in one interview with teachers

1. What support has the university given you as a beginning college teacher?

2. Can you tell me more precisely about your initial experience? What did you do to help you get to know the university’s work dynamic? How did you feel at this new stage of your professional life?

3. From what you say, can we infer that you think the person just starting out should be assigned a sort of mentor or person in charge of this beginning stage?

4. Can we say that in the beginning one accepts nearly all the requirements without making any objection?

5. Did you feel that way in the beginning?

6. Thinking about those beginning days at the university, could you mention the specific training a new teacher should get at this new stage in his or her professional life?

7. It seems to me that when you are hired by the university and they assign you to a particular field of learning, you should receive information about the university, the curriculum, the profile of the professional they are trying to train, the resources available, the duties and rights of the teacher, as well as the administrative aspects of the development of that curriculum, the academic programming, the rules of evaluation of learning. What was your experience concerning all that?

8. Individually, what activities have you done to meet your own professional training needs?

9. All these initiatives you have mentioned to me, do they fit into the training plan you are registered in, given that you are a classroom teacher?

10. I understand that at the university, when a teacher is hired as an ordinary teacher (like you, at present) as a result of an employment contest, the department must
present a training plan for that teacher. I would like you to tell me about that training plan, what areas it has taken in, and what is happening with it right now.

11. I am interested to hear you say that you developed that training plan. I understand that in the training plan you have to consider things that concern you personally as well as what the department needs. Can you make that a little clearer?

12. As you see it, does the department have a policy and a training program for the teachers?

13. Could it be said that in that professional development one acts quite reluctantly?

14. Was it not a policy of the department?

15. Do you check out or do research on your teaching practice in any systematic way?

16. Are you right now participating in some research or study group?

17. Are the study topics connected with your disciplinary area?

18. Of all these initiatives that you have begun for your own training, which ones have been the most meaningful?

19. What are your training needs right now?

20. How do you think the training of teachers, instructors, and assistants should be handled at the university?