Abstract
Teaching profession is one of the most popular occupations of today regarding becoming a government official or finding a job. Pedagogical formation training programs opened in the last two years and the student demand for the programs opened constitute the most important indication of this situation. After the pedagogical formation training (for one or two periods), if the candidates are appointed, then they will directly start performing the requirements of occupation. Thus, it is an issue of concern at what level the candidates that do not choose Faculty of Education in their undergraduate education are ready for teaching profession.With this research, it is aimed to reveal the occupation anxieties of teacher candidates graduated from Faculty of Science, Faculty of Literature and Faculty of Fine Arts. Data collection means of the research is Teacher Candidate Anxiety Scale that is customized and developed by Saban, Korkmaz and Akbas (2004). Scale consists of three sub-dimensions which are egocentric, duty-centered and student centered anxieties. 105 teacher candidates in Music, Mathematics, Turkish and Science fields that were educated in Nigde University Faculty of Education Pedagogical Formation program in 2013-2014 academic year form the study group of the research. Occupational anxieties of teacher candidates are analyzed regarding field variable and comparisons are made. According to research findings, in occupational anxieties of teacher candidates regarding field variable; in egocentric anxieties in music and mathematics, in duty-centered anxieties significant different is observed music and mathematics with music and science fields. Student centered anxieties do not show any differences according to field variable. Keywords: Pedagogic formation, occupational anxiety, teacher
Highlights
Anxiety is an imperceptible form of fear felt without any knowledge of what the problem is
When the findings are analyzed in terms of self centered, duty centered and student centered anxieties; it is determined that candidates in mathematics field do have self centered anxiety, and have very little anxiety regarding duty centered and student centered anxiety types, and teacher candidates in music, science and Turkish fields have very little anxiety in all anxiety types
In their studies to determine the anxieties about teaching profession of teacher candidates that are in pedagogical formation program Tural and Kabadayı (2014) formed a study group of 80 teacher candidates and they reached to the conclusion that teacher candidates have positive attitude towards teaching profession
Summary
Anxiety is an imperceptible form of fear felt without any knowledge of what the problem is. As for reasons of the occurrence of anxiety, situations of subconscious or stimulus generalization come out (Morgan, 1998). According to Bozdam and Tasgin (2011), anxiety comes out with factors that mostly affect success and failure. Individuals whose occupational readiness is not sufficient and who has less accumulation of knowledge and experience or who cannot use these feel much more anxiety. Anxiety does even cause loss of encouragement by rising to the level of fear at some periods. Occupational anxieties of teacher candidates become intense at specific periods on specific points
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