Comparison of the Republic Period First Inspector Training Program and Modern-day Inspector Training Program

Abstract

To be able to talk about the existence of a successful education system, it is important to inspect all stages as much as the inputs, processes, and outputs of the system. To reach the distant goals of education smoothly, the close goals need to be checked, problems should be detected and corrected in a right time and in a suitable way, necessary changes should be done before it is too late. The training of inspectors, which is important at all levels of education system is very important. In this study, texts written about the contents of first practice regarding the training of inspectors in the first years of Republic will be examined. It is aimed to present the criteria of inspector training through the curriculum courses opened in that period and to compare with today’s applications. In addition, the list of teachers who attended the courses opened in Ankara and Sivas will be included. Thus, expectations from the inspectors of the period will be revealed and contribute to the interpretation of today's inspection understanding. This study was carried out using document analysis method which is a qualitative research approach. The First Educational Inspector Courses, curriculum and the texts including list of the teachers’ names who attended courses in Ankara and Sivas were translated into modern-day Turkish. The findings of this study consist of the content of the training given in the first educational courses, professional sufficiency and the education methods providing that sufficiency, training duration of the courses organized in Ankara and Sivas, lists of teachers names attended courses. In training inspection in first years of Republic, it has been found that the aims of principles of education were prioritized.