Abstract
The main purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of teacher candidates about teaching basic concepts in teaching principles and methods with porphyrios tree-based applications. The study group of the research using the phenomenon science pattern, consists of 60 teacher candidates studying in the 2nd grade of the Faculty of Education at Siirt University in the 2019-2020 academic year. In the research, semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher was used as data collection tool. In addition, through document analysis, excerpts from the teacher candidates' activities regarding porphyrios tree-based applications were made. The data obtained were subjected to content analysis. As a result of the research, it was seen that teacher candidates define the teaching principles and methods course as a course that organizes teaching-learning processes and offers different perspectives to the individual. In this course, they emphasized that they have readiness for strategy, method and technique concepts. Teacher candidates stated that they had an misconceptions about basic concepts in teaching principles and methods lesson, that similar and different aspects of the concepts were explained with porphyrios tree-based applications. It was concluded that the concepts learned in the teaching principles and methods course contributed more to their cognitive aspect. Based on the results of the research, some suggestions are presented.
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