مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - EXAMINING THE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS IN TURKEY UNDER THE LIGHT OF INSTRUCTORS VIEWS

Abstract :

The history of teaching profession dates back to ancient times and educating qualified teachers has always been seen as an important issue in all communities and ages. Qualified teachers have been said to affect the succes in the education systems to a great extent. Moreover, the subject of educating qualified teachers has a relation with the quality of the teacher training programs. In this context, examining the system and process of teacher education and restoration of the current system in accordance with the needs of our age can be said to have a vital importance. For these reasons, the aim of this study is to investigate the the instructors views on curriculum and student admission, training and graduation systems of the teacher training institutions in Turkey. By this way, existing problems of these institutions can be identified and some suggesstions cen be provided. With this aim, the researchers interviewed with 15 instructors working in Ziya Gökalp Education Faculty in Dicle University in the teaching and learning year of 2014-2015 and whose study field is especially on educational sciences. The descriptive analysis was used in order to analyze the data obtained from the interviews with instructors. The results of the analysis showed that the instructors are of the opinions that by taking the central exams as the only criteria for accepting students to teacher training programs and assigning system for graduate teachers are not approppriate practices and these kinds of practices negatively affect the training process of these institutions. Moreover the instructors mentioned that training the candidate teachers with certificate of teacher profession knowledge is scientifically and pedagojically inapproppriate and this kind of implementation negatively affect the quality of the teachers. Finally, the instructors emphasized that there is a serious deficiency of planning process in teacher training politics in Turkey and this kind of deficiency of planning negatively affect the quality of the universities and the teacher training programs.