Problems that Pedagogical Formation Certificate Program Students Think that They will Encounter in Their Professional Lives

From past to present in Turkey too many different applications have been used in order to meet the need of branch teacher. Pedagogical Formation Certificate Program is one of these applications used since 2010. When education research literature examined it can be seen that almost all of the studies were carried out with employed teachers. In contrast, there is any research to determine their awareness about problems in their professional lives with pedagogical formation program students who are prepared to be a teacher with very short program. However, gaining awareness about problems in professional life while a student is important to prevent potential problems or makes easier to solve them. In this context, this study aims to identify the problems that pedagogical formation program students will encounter with their professional lives and to question the contribution of the training they receive in the pedagogical program to the solution of these problems. Data of the study were collected in 2014-2015 Academic Year Fall Term with 12 volunteer Anadolu University Pedagogical Formation Program students through semi-structured interviews. As a result of descriptive analysis of the data students thought that they could have problem to provide classroom management and communicate with students effectively. In addition, lack of instructional materials and cooperation through colleagues, also differences of life style where they start to work and different political views among school management and teachers could cause problems. The majority of the students said that program does not have enough contribution at the point of solving these problems as expected especially because of the ineffective distance education part of it.