Evaluation of Candidate Teacher Training Process from the Viewpoint of Mentor Teachers

Ramazan Alabaş,İhsan Yılmaz

doi:10.11114/jets.v6i11.3462

Ramazan Alabaş, İhsan Yılmaz

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https://doi.org/10.11114/jets.v6i11.3462

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Teacher education has been one of the most debated topics in history of Turkish education. At the beginning of the teacher's career, the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MONE) implemented the Candidate Teacher Training Program in 2016, so the teachers accepted to the profession were qualified as “candidate teachers” and they were subjected to the training process. The aim of this research is to examine the opinions of the mentor teachers regarding the Candidate Teacher Training Program implemented by the Turkish MONE for the training of candidate teachers. This research, which is a qualitative case study, was conducted with the participation of 36 teachers who are mentors to candidate teachers within the Candidate Teacher Training Program in the schools, which were affiliated to MONE in Kastamonu province center and its districts. The data of the study were collected by means of a semi-structured interview form. The data obtained in the research were analyzed with descriptive analysis and content analysis approaches. Mentor teachers thought that the Candidate Teacher Training Program is beneficial because the program provided the candidate teachers with the opportunities to identify students, acquire educational-instructional competence, acquire managerial knowledge, and identify the school and the social environment. However mentor teachers stated that they have experienced some problems related to the process such as filling in forms, some problems resulting from the candidate teacher, and time inadequacy.

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Education, teaching and teaching profession, one of the factors of social change, constitutes the social aspect of education (Akyüz, 2012)
The research findings have been analyzed under four titles: “mentor teachers' opinions about the effectiveness of the Candidate Teacher Training Program, the contribution of the program to the candidate teachers according to the mentor teachers, the difficulties encountered in the program and the recommendations of the mentor teachers about the program.”
"What is your opinion about the effectiveness of the Candidate Teacher Training Program" was asked to the mentor teachers to determine the effectiveness of "The Candidate Teacher Training Program"

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Education, teaching and teaching profession, one of the factors of social change, constitutes the social aspect of education (Akyüz, 2012). The most important factor directly affecting the quality of education systems is the teachers who are practitioners of the system. Teacher is an indispensable element of human development system in every society (Genç, 2005). Teachers play important roles and have duties in determining the quality of the human power and the nature of education institutions as they are both preparing and applying all the elements of the education system. Teacher education and the qualities of the teacher's profession have been one of the most important topics discussed in the history of Turkish education

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