Teacher Candidates In Terms Research Articles

Examination of the Teacher Candidates’ Environmental Attitudes via NEP Scale in terms of Different Variables

In today’s world, the importance of environment education that is one of the most important issues is increasing rapidly. In the basis of the education, families and teachers take role together. It is aimed to grow up individuals who have positive attitudes and are sensitive the environment at every level of education. In order to achieve this goal, there is need for teachers giving importance to environment education and having adequate equipment. It will be beneficial to learn the environmental attitudes of teacher candidates who grow up elementary students after a few years. Because of this reason, in this study, it is aimed to examine the environmental attitudes of teacher candidates in terms of different variables. In the research, quantitative research methods were used. Sample is consisted of 1th and 3rd grade students from different department of science in Faculty of Education at Hacettepe University. In order to collect the data, New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale was used. In the finding of the research, it was investigated that there is a difference in environmental attitudes of teacher candidates in terms of department of science, grade level, region lived during their childhood and get the status of environment education course variables and there is no difference in term of also, some suggestions were given.

Teaching for Change: Teacher Candidates’ Anti-Oppression Elementary School Lesson Plans

This paper explores pre-service elementary teacher candidates’ written reflections on an assignment for a mandatory Bachelor of Education course in Ontario, Canada. The assignment required the teacher candidates (TCs) to create and teach one 40-minute anti-oppression lesson (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.) in a public elementary school with students in senior kindergarten to grade 6. Two key themes are discussed in the paper: first, the ways in which TCs found convenient excuses as to why they were unable to fully engage with a topic; and, second, the fears identified by the TCs in terms of teaching sensitive issues.

Türkçe Öğretmeni Adaylarının Bilgisayar Kullanma Yeterliklerine İlişkin Görüşlerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Son yıllarda meydana gelen teknolojik gelişmeler, bilgisayarların eğitim-öğretim ortamlarında daha fazla işe koşulmasına yol açmıştır. Dolayısıyla, derslerde öğrencileri yönlendirecek, onlara rehberlik edecek öğretmenlerin bilgisayar kullanma düzeyleri son derece önem arz etmektedir. Bu araştırmanın amacı da Türkçe öğretmeni adaylarının bilgisayar kullanma yeterliklerini çeşitli değişkenler (sınıf, öğretim türü, mezun olunan lise, üniversite) açısından değerlendirmektir. Çalışmada, eğitim-öğretim ortamında teknolojiden faydalanma, bilgisayar okuryazarlığı becerileri ve bilgisayar okuryazarı olmanın önemi tartışılmış; öğretmen adaylarının bilgisayar kullanma yeterlik düzeyleri, bilgisayar programlarını kullanma sıklıkları ve bilgisayarı kullanma amaçlarını belirlemek amacıyla uygulanan anket sonuçları, tablolar halinde verilerek yorumlanmıştır.

Türkçe Öğretmeni Adaylarının Lisans Düzeyinde Verilen Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi (YTÖ) Dersine Yönelik Özyeterlik Algıları

Araştırmanın amacı, Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümü programında yer alan “Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi” dersini alan öğretmen adaylarının yabancılara Türkçe öğretimine dair özyeterlik inançlarının belirlenmesidir. Araştırma betimsel nitelikte olup, amaç ve alt amaçları karşılamaya uygun olduğu düşünülen “tarama modeli”nden yararlanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümü “Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi” dersini almış olan 3. ve 4.sınıf öğrencileri (276 öğrenci) çalışmanın evrenini, 3. ve 4.sınıf öğrencilerinden 236 öğrenci ise çalışmanın örneklemini oluşturmaktadır. Veri toplama aracı olarak, Tschannen-Moran ve Woolfolk Hoy tarafından 2001 yılında geliştirilen; öğretmenlerin özyeterlik inançlarına yönelik özyeterlik ölçeğinin Türkçeye adapte edilmiş şekli kullanılmıştır. Ölçek, Çapa, Çakıroğlu ve Sarıkaya (2005) tarafından Türkçeye uyarlanmış ve Türkiye’deki dört ildeki altı farklı üniversiteden 628 öğretmen adayının katılımı ile güvenirlik ve geçerliliği test edilmiştir. Söz konusu ölçek, Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi dersine uyarlanmış ve 3 farklı uzmanın görüşüne sunulduktan sonra bu çalışmada kullanılmıştır. Bayan öğretmen adayları, yabancılara Türkçe öğretimi konusunda, motivasyon, özyeterlik, ölçme değerlendirme ve yabancı dil öğretim yöntemlerini kullanma boyutlarında, erkek öğretmen adaylarına göre kendilerini daha yeterli görmektedirler. Ayrıca; Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi dersini alan 4.sınıf öğretmen adayları yabancı dil öğretiminde kullanılan yöntemler boyutunda, 3.sınıf öğretmen adaylarına göre kendilerini daha yeterli görmektedirler.

Awareness level of teacher candidates in terms of their Turkish language sufficiency: a qualitative research

Awareness level of teacher candidates in terms of their Turkish language sufficiency: a qualitative research

Investigation of cultural beliefs of physical education teacher candidates with faculty of education

The purpose of this study is to adapt the Turkish version of Teacher's Cultural Beliefs Scale (OCDS) that is developed by Hachfeld et al (2011) that determines the cultural beliefs of teacher candidates, to determine physical education teachers' cultural beliefs and to compare physical education teacher candidates and other teacher candidates in terms of cultural beliefs and in addition, to examine cultural beliefs in terms of gender and grade variables in education. The research group consists of 330 teacher candidates in total that are educated at the faculty of physical education and training. As a data collection tool, OCDC and personal information form were used. In the analysis of research data, t-test and one way analysis of variance technique were used in order to determine the difference between descriptive statistics and dependent and independent variables. While there is not encountered significant difference (p>05) between arithmetic averages that are in attitude levels for cultural beliefs in terms of grade variables (p>.05), there is a significant differences in belief subscale and total scale for egalitarianism according to gender (p<.05). Besides, there are significant differences determined in attitudes towards cultural beliefs of teacher candidates of physical education and training faculties in terms of department variables (p<.05). Consequently, it was seen that the beliefs about multiculturalism and egalitarianism of physical education teacher candidates and other teacher candidates have been positive and as well as this, it was determined that other teacher candidates were at a higher level according to physical education teacher candidates.

Investigating environmental attitudes and knowledge levels of teacher candidates in terms of different variables

The main purpose of this study is to investigate attitudes and knowledge levels of pre-service teachers in Social Sciences Education and Science and Technology Education department towards environment in terms of different variables. The data was gained from 323 pre-service teachers as 171 female and 152 male during 2012-2013 academic year. Environmental Attitude Scale and Environmental Knowledge Test developed by Uzun and Sağlam (2006) were used in order to obtain data of the study. According to the results, teacher candidates are found to be very positive in terms of environmental thought, average level in terms of environmental literacy, and close to negative level in terms of their behaviors towards environment. Meaningful in average level relationship was detected between environmental knowledge and thought points. No significant difference was found statistically among teacher candidates' environmental thought, behavior and knowledge points according to parents' occupations, number of family members, socio-economic level, taking environmental course in secondary school and being a member of an environmental association.

Comparison of the Chemistry Learning Motivations of the Science and Primary School Teacher Candidates

The aim of this study is to compare the chemistry learning motivations of the science and primary school teacher candidates. Participants of the study are composed of 98 science teacher candidates (71 female and 27 male) and 62 primary school teacher candidates (44 female and 18 male) studying at the departments of Science and Elementary teaching of the Education Faculty at Pamukkale University in the Spring Semester of the academic year 2012/2013. Totally, 160 Science and primary school teacher candidates studying at the first grade participated in the study. Chemistry Motivation Questionnaire (CMQ) composed of 22 five-point likert type scale questions were applied to the participants. Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficiency of the Chemistry Motivation Questionnaire was found to be 0.86. Gathered data was analyzed by using SPSS-15 software program. The results of the study showed meaningful differences between intrinsic motivation levels, personal appropriateness, self- determination and self-ability, extrinsic motivation and sub-dimension motivation levels of science and primary school teacher candidates. Motivations of Science teacher candidates were found to be higher than primary school teacher candidates in terms of these three sub-dimensions of motivation. However, anxiety level of being evaluated wasn't found to be significant. While the results of CMQ based on the item of gender variety did not show significant differences in terms of participants' intrinsic motivation, personal appropriateness, self determination and extrinsic motivation levels, the anxiety level of being evaluated was found to be significant and this difference was in favour of male candidates. (Anxiety level of males was found to be lower than female candidates). According to the gender difference variety, there wasn't found to be significant difference among primary school teacher candidates.

Pre-service Teachers’ Choice of Physical versus Electronic Instructional Materials

The main goal of the current study was to analyze early childhood and elementary pre-service teachers’ choices of participant-designed materials and the reasons for their selection. To this end, 57 elementary and 39 early childhood teacher candidates were asked to design one physical material and one electronic material for instruction. Then, they were asked which type of material they would prefer if they were teaching and what their rationale was for this selection. The results revealed several dissimilarities between early childhood and elementary teacher candidates in terms of their choices and the reasons for their choices. In their rationale, elementary pre-service teachers more referred their limited technological knowledge while early childhood pre-service teachers took attention to the need for hands-on activities for their instruction. In general, participants raised critical questions related to teachers’ technological knowledge, and teacher preparation programs as well as professional development programs regarding how to integrate such instructional technologies effectively into course activities to enhance learning.

Examining of Problem Solving Skills According to Different Variables for Science Teachers Candidates

Todays society needs persons who have easy access to information and ability to use it for contribute production, communication and critical thinking skills with capability of analysis, synthesis and evaluation, investigating, creative, questioning, adopted universal values and constantly improving themselves. In this context, are expected to train the manpower with that features from education systems. Especially science teachers have most importance earning mentioned qualities to students. For this reason, in research is aimed to investigate problem-solving skills of science teacher candidates in terms of demographic characteristics. For this purpose, to the teacher candidates were applied problem-solving inventory and personal information form which were developed by Heppner and Peterson (1982), adapted to Turkish by Şahin, Şahin and Heppner (1993). Total 125 teacher candidates who located in the western provinces of Turkey participated to study. According to the research results, teacher candidates total scores of problem solving skills shows no statistically significant differences according to gender, grade level and type of high school.

A case study: Self-efficacy beliefs of teacher candidates regarding developing educational software

The purpose of this study is to analyze the self-efficacy beliefs of the teacher candidates towards developing educational software by some variables such as gender and grade and to investigate the correlation between self-efficacy beliefs and academic achievement. Sixty students participated to this study. Education Software Development Self-Efficacy Perception Scale was used as instrument. No significant difference was found between self-efficacy perceptions according to gender. Data analysis showed that fourth grade teacher candidates trust themselves more than third grade teacher candidates in terms of developing educational software. Also there was weak relationship between self-efficacy perception and academic achievement.

A Research On Subjective Well-Being And Decision Making Of Teacher Candidates

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between subjective well-being and decision making of the teacher candidates in terms of different variables. The domain of this research is the teacher candidates who are studying at Selcuk University in 2007-2008 academic year. The target population of the study is 600 students who are chosen, by cluster sampling method, among the teacher candidates who are studying in education, vocational education and technical education faculties of the university. Decision making style scale, subjective well- being scale and personal information form were used to collect research data. In the data analysis, according to the type of the data, correlations (r), t test, one-way analysis of variance were used. In the case of F values were significant; Tukey test was used to find which groups caused the difference. In terms of various variables significant differences were found between well-being and decision making styles of the teacher candidates as the results of these analyses. According to the findings some suggestions has been made.