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- Could the Principal Help Teachers Professional Development Within The School Unit
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- Historical Development of Teacher Training Models in Turkey Zehra Köseoğlu zehray-143@hotmail.com
3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 186 Could the Principal Help Teachers' Professional Development Within The School Unit? Venetia Kapachtsi bekapah@gmail.com Domna-Mika Kakana Collaborative action research, as a model of teachers’ professional development contributes to their professional development and tends to transform educational practice in a more profound pedagogical process. In this study, such a model was chosen, with eleven participants of various disciplines at a secondary school in eastern Thessaloniki, during the school year 2013-2014. With the initiative of the school headmistress, collaborative action research was implemented. Τhe purpose of this study was to investigate whether collaborative action research initiated by the headmistress in cooperation with the teachers, could be a kind of training for teachers of secondary education. The participants decided, scrutinizing their teaching problems, the aim of their improvement effort that was the implementation of the collaborative method of teaching in their classrooms. During this effort, the teachers started to get involved in the process of reflection and they tried to keep diaries in order to reflect on their experiences. During the last three months of the school year, peer observation -another methodological tool of action research- was used by the participants in order to obtain real evidence of the teaching method. The progress of the collaborative action research was evaluated by analyzing the participants’ diaries and students’ evaluation sheets. According to the participants, the exchange of experiences through action research admittedly served both as a kind of participants’ activation and as a "reservoir" of options for further progress. The students, although they faced some difficulties in adapting to the new teaching practices, began to communicate better, to act cooperatively and finally they found the new teaching method more attractive than the traditional one. The faculty member of the University in the role of facilitator and the active headmistress’ presence at the meetings, proved decisive according to the teachers. Thus, open-minded and well educated persons in the field of educational organization and management are required. The principal of the school units should be the key figure for such an effort, providing an encouraging and supportive atmosphere leading to teachers’ professionalism Keywords: principal, school unit, professional development, teacher 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 187 Pre-service Teachers’ Views on the Quality of Faculty Life Yahya Altinkurt yaltinkurt@gmail.com Kürşad Yilmaz Turgut Karaköse Orhan Murat Kalfa Students are required to be the active creators of school, rather than being passive receivers of information and services provided in the school. In order to provide this, an appropriate climate needs to be ensured, which means increasing the qualities of school life. The main purpose of increasing the quality of school life is to engage students in the school and to integrate them with the school environment. The quality of school life is defined as the synthesis of positive and negative experiences and very special situations related to the other feelings in school life and its outcomes. Studies related to the quality of school life are done with the aims like measuring school effectiveness and its improvement. Additionally, another aim is to ensure these students with a high quality of life and to develop the comprehensive educational practices and teachers' teaching effectiveness (Leonard, Bourke and Schofield, 2003b). The present study aimed to determine the views of the pre-service teachers on the quality of faculty life. The research was designed with the survey model. The sample was comprised of 183 pre-service teachers. The Quality of Faculty Life Scale (Çokluk-Bökeoğlu and Yılmaz, 2006) was used as the data gathering tool for the survey. Scale is composed of three dimensions: Satisfaction with Class Atmosphere and Relations to Students, Satisfaction with Instructors and Satisfaction with Faculty. Descriptive statistics, t-test for pair comparisons and ANOVA for more than two comparisons were used to define the opinions of pre-service teachers about the Quality of Faculty Life. According to the findings, pre-service teachers’ satisfaction with faculty life is moderate. Pre-service teachers feel satisfied with Instructors at the highest level with Class Atmosphere and Relations to Students and with Faculty respectively. Pre-service teachers’ views on the Quality of Faculty Life; Satisfaction with Instructors; Satisfaction with Class Atmosphere and Relations to Students and Satisfaction with Faculty sub-dimensions do not vary according to gender. While pre-service teachers’ views on the Quality of Faculty Life; Satisfaction with Class Atmosphere and Relations to Students and Satisfaction with Faculty sub-dimensions vary according to grade, views on Satisfaction with Instructors sub-dimension do not vary according to the grade. While freshman students and senior students have the most positive opinions, sophomore students and junior students have the most negative opinions in the total point of the Quality of Faculty Life. The difference is between those who have and have not a positive opinion. The difference in the Satisfaction with Class Atmosphere and Relations to Students sub- dimension is between junior students, who have the most negative opinions and freshman students and senior students who have more positive opinions. The difference in the Satisfaction with Faculty sub-dimension is between freshman students and senior students who have the most positive opinions, and sophomore students and junior students who have the most negative opinions. In all dimensions whether there exists a difference or not; while freshman students and senior students have the most positive opinions, sophomore students and junior students have the most negative opinions. Keywords: Pre-service Teachers, Quality of Faculty Life 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 188 A Compilation Work about Why Turkey Suffers From Learning and Teaching English Yıldız Suna yldzsuna@ymail.com In today’s global world, the need of communication with other countries and the need of transmitting knowledge, culture and many other issues bring out the necessity of knowing a language that will enable people to communicate all over the world. English language stands out as the Lingua Franca, the common medium of communication of that global world. Taking this into consideration, there have been many efforts in Turkey to teach and learn English. In Turkey there have been many problems in teaching and learning a foreign language more specifically English. Despite too many efforts to take over this problem, it is still hard to say it is done. Many surveys and proposals have been done on this subject each one focusing on a different issue as a reason for the problems in teaching and learning English. This study is a compilation work that brings together many different theses, articles, reports, surveys taking the same problem from different points. Although they point to different aspects of the problem, all these aspects emphasize the lack of a well-built language teaching policy and a well-designed plan for the application of the language teaching program across the state. A large scale of literature review on the issue has been done going back to 1990s. A compiled resolution has been offered making comparisons between the studies, pointing to their similarities and differences. As a result it can be said that Turkey’s efforts to enhance the English teaching and learning problem seem to fail as it ignores the realities of the country while making the new policy. Turkey should take a step to revise its English teaching policy because all the other surface problems are the results of that lacking policy and while revising its policy it shouldn’t ignore its own cultural, social and economic background and it should also take the international standards into consideration. Keywords: teaching and learning English, suffering, efforts, compilation work, Turkey, teaching policy 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 189 Historical Development of Teacher Training Models in Turkey Zehra Köseoğlu zehray-143@hotmail.com This study aimed to examine works having been done on teacher training since the Ottoman State. In the study, all the teacher training models having been applied since first teacher training works were put forward by examining documents and legal texts. First teacher types doing formal education works in the Ottomans: ‘Teachers’ teaching at Ottoman Primary Schools and ‘professors’ teaching at madrasahs. Western type of schools started to be opened first in the military area at the end of the 1700s and teachers of these schools were generally brought from abroad in those years. After the opening of the first western style civilian school in 1847, ‘School of Secondary Teacher Training (Darulmuallimin-i Rushdi)’ was opened on March 16 th , 1848. Later, the ‘Boys' School of Primary Teacher Training (Darulmuallimin-i Sibyan 1868)’ was opened to train primary school teachers, the ‘Girls' School of Teacher Training (Darülmuallimat-1870)’ was founded to train teachers for girls' secondary schools and primary schools, the ‘Menşe-i Muallimin (1875) was established to train civilian teachers for military schools and the 'Higher School of Teacher Training (Büyük Öğretmen Okulu) (1877)’ was opened to train teachers for high schools. Moreover, in the Republican period, starting from 1934 on, with the aim of benefiting from privates trained in the army as teachers when they went back to their villages, Instructor Courses, and starting from 1937 on, Village Instructor Hostels were opened. Later these were named as Village Institutions. However, starting from 1947 on, the course programs and curricula of these schools were modified. Works to be done by their graduates were regulated again and in 1953 they were turned into Primary Teacher Training Schools. The teacher need of secondary schools was met for a long time with a school founded in 1926 in Konya and then starting from 1927 moved to Ankara and was given the name of «Gazi Secondary Teacher Training School». As a matter of fact, despite many negative evaluations, the modifications made in 1974 reflected a situation in which the numerical aspect of the need for teachers in Turkey decreased but instead its quality aspect started to be determined and new models were sought. Starting from 1982 on, the two-year Education Institutions, whose number was decreased to 17 in 1981, the Education Vocational High Schools and the three-year Education Institutions were increased to 4 years and connected to Universities under the name of «Education Faculties». Hence, after the crisis period between 1974 and 1982, the matter of teacher training in Turkey reached a new stage which we can call «universitization of teaching». It can be stated that the models tested today are carried out within this framework. Keywords: Turkey, teacher, teacher training, school Download 5.07 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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