Öğretmen Adaylarının Mesleki Yeterliklerine İlişkin İnançları

Abstract

The most important agents of a developing society are teachers. Teaching profession which has always been known as a professional group which take on guiding-intentional duty from past to present has sometimes been the architecture of social structure and sometimes has been the keeper of the regime. The fact that most important profession has taken pedagogic education in pre-service is important fort he future. For that purpose, there has been carried out an assessment study in the context of sample analyzing pre-service teachers’beliefs upon the professional competency according to gender, university, department and type of teaching. Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Competency Questionnaire developed by Dilci has been conducted to the pre-service teachers in the survey. 107 people including final year students studying in Cumhuriyet University and Kilis 7 Aralik University Faculties of Education have been chosen as random sample to this study. There have been asked the opinions of pre-service teachers studying in Turkish, Social Sciences and Classroom Teaching Departments of the aforementioned universities. According to the data acquired from the survey, it has been noticed that pre-service teachers’ professional competency perception does not differentiate according to their gender, universities and type of teaching; however it significantly differentiates according to pre-service teachers’ departments. This difference is in favor of Classroom Teaching among Classroom Teaching, Turkish and Social Sciences Teaching. Findings have been discussed in the light of the relevant literature