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The aim of the study was to discover what beginning teachers themselves conceive as competence in relation to what they did everyday as teachers. These beginning teachers were interviewed and the transcripts analysed to reveal how they conceived the phenomenon of competence. The results showed that beginning teachers’ conceptions of competence fell into  \nfive qualitatively different categories: (i) classroom and behaviour  \nmanagement, (ii) knowing subject matter, (iii) reaching out for  \nassistance and support, (iv) understanding students and (v) possessing  \nvalues of professionalism. This study could serve as a platform to  \nfurther extend beginning teachers’ understandings of the teacher  \nprofession, and to provide them more possibilities to extend their  \ncompetences to enable them to continuously develop and create  \nopportunities for their own students.  \nIntroduction  \nMalaysia, like other Asia-Pacific countries, has experienced rapid economic growth in the last 20 years (Tam and Cheng, 2007) . These countries not only have to compete with eachother but also globally. Hence, the ever growing economic, technological and social changes taking shape around the globe requires not only skilled workers, but those who are also innovative and competitive. High quality educational provision is necessary to achieve these goals, but highly competent teachers become imperative (Ng and Tan, 2006). Most likely then, the competence of teachers entering the profession becomes an important issue for all educational stakeholders (e.g. parents, educators, and educational administrators) who select and employ these teachers. In fact, in the new Malaysian Economic Transformation Program,“improving teacher quality in the education system is a top priority”(Jala, 2010, para 16). Various measures are put in place to make some form of judgement on aspects of their competence. It involves the complex process of developing a nationally recognised set of competency-based teacher standards. It is a new policy direction to make credible judgements on teacher competency (“Malaysia First in Region to Adopt Benchmark”, 2009; Malaysian Teachers Standards, 2009) .  \nThe judgement of a teacher’s competence generally begins when they become teacher candidates and it is carried on through their undergraduate years and during periods of their practicum. 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