eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2333-4770 2014-12-01 2 12 1131 1137 10.12691/education-2-12-1 EDUCATION20142121 article Miluse Viteckova 1 Zdenka Gadusova zgadusova@ukf.sk 2 Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in ČeskéBudějovice, Czech Republic Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia The paper presents partial results of research carried out among novice teachers and mentors with a special focus on teachers' professional induction in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The aim of this research was to identify problematic areas novice teachers face, opportunities for novice support in the form of appointed mentors and, furthermore, the research has relevance also because of its impact on the higher education training of future teachers. Another aim of this Czech and Slovak research was to find out the differences in the area of CPD of teachers between these two countries which used to form one common country before the year 1993 and, consequently, had a common history. In both countries mixed research has been carried out, using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. In the Czech Republic 148 novice teachers and 67 mentors have been involved in the questionnaire research. In Slovakia it has been 132 novices and 127 mentors. The semi-structured interviews have recorded the opinions of 30 novices and 8 mentors in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia 17 novices and 26 mentors. The research was supported by the Slovak National Research Agency VEGA under the project number 1/0677/12 (in the years 2012 - 2014), but Czech and Slovak cooperation continues within a new mobility project Personal and Professional Needs of Novice Teachers which is supported by the research agency APVV. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/2/12/1/education-2-12-1.pdf novice teacher mentor professional induction