Abstract
The research aims to examine the occupational anxiety level of Mathematics teacher candidates according to some variables. The research sample included a total of 132 prospective teachers studying in Mathematics Teaching at Siirt University, Faculty of Education in the spring term of 2104-2015 academic year. The “Teacher Concern Checklist” adapted by Åžaban et al. from Borich and the personal information form developed by the researcher were used. The unrelated sample t-test and one-way variance analysis technique were used to analyze the data. The research results showed that the overall anxiety level of prospective teachers was moderate, and the average score they achieved from three dimensions of the concern checklist (task-centered anxiety, student- centered anxiety and self- centered anxiety) did not significantly differ by variables including gender, school year and type of high school they graduated from. Key words: Professional anxiety, anxiety, mathematics teacher candidate, education, teacher.
Highlights
The only need of a society is a successful and innovative education system to have the knowledge and experience necessitated by the time, to reach the level of modern civilizations, to live the knowledge era and become a knowledge society
A teacher, who is in the center of the education system, is supposed to be an individual who has positive behavior in regard to his/her profession and who does not have a concern or negative attitudes about his/her profession besides being qualified, sociable and having the knowledge required by his/her profession, ability, sympathy and tendency to be reflective (Akgün and Özgür, 2014)
This section compares the findings from this study performed to identify occupational anxiety of prospective teachers receiving education in mathematics teaching for primary schools with findings from other studies
Summary
The only need of a society is a successful and innovative education system to have the knowledge and experience necessitated by the time, to reach the level of modern civilizations, to live the knowledge era and become a knowledge society. In the review of research performed, there are many studies conducted to investigate anxiety level of prospective teachers in teaching profession by different variables. As demonstrated in such studies, it is highly important for prospective teachers not to have any concerns about their profession in order to achieve in teaching profession. Only few studies were performed with prospective teachers receiving education in teaching Mathematics for primary schools This makes further important to conduct a study on occupational anxiety of Mathematics teaching candidates. This study was performed for the purpose of examining anxiety of students studying primary school Mathematics teaching by different variables
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