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AI InsightWhile initial enthusiasm about teaching and confidence in pre-service education were the major sources of well-being, several factors including financial issues, respect, school environment, ambiguity about recruitment, students’ attitudes, and workload negatively affected perceptions of teacher well-being
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Abstract
Effective teaching is an important aspect of educational planning and policy-making. As the agents of content delivery, teachers play a sound role in realizing curricular goals and objectives. However, maintenance of teachers’ well-being per se is an often-unnoticed component of effective teaching. Defined as an emotional state of overall harmony among multifaceted factors influencing teachers’ performance, teacher well-being contributes to the quality of instructional practices in the classroom. Given the recent developments in terms of teacher recruitment policies of the Turkish government, well-being of teacher candidates is likely to suffer from ambiguities about the test and conditions for selection, requirements of the induction period, and procedures following their selection. To shed light on possible impact(s) of these developments on teachers’ well-being, the present study investigated pre-service English language teachers’ perceptions of well-being amid the revolutionary changes in teacher recruitment in Türkiye. Based on both qualitative and quantitative data, this convergent mixed-methods study used descriptive statistics and content analysis. The study intriguingly found moderate levels of well-being among pre-service teachers. While initial enthusiasm about teaching and confidence in pre-service education were the major sources of well-being, several factors including financial issues, respect, school environment, ambiguity about recruitment, students’ attitudes, and workload negatively affected perceptions of teacher well-being