School readiness: changes in the views of prospective early childhood teachers following a pre-service school readiness and transition to elementary school cours

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The current study aimed to investigate the changes of the school readiness and transition to elementary school course on pre-service early childhood teachers’ views about young children’s school readiness. Teacher view of children’s school readiness scale and interview protocols were administered as pre-post test and pre-post interviews to pre-service early childhood education teachers who were in the process of completing final year in their education in the four university’s department of early childhood teacher education in Ankara, Turkey. The teacher views of children’s school readiness scale was administrated to 169 pre-service early childhood teachers and a subsample of 26 pre-service early childhood teachers were interviewed before and after they completed School Readiness and Transition to Elementary School course. Qualitative and quantitative findings in mixed methods research demonstrated that school readiness and transition to elementary school course in early childhood teacher education programs elaborated participants’ views about children’s school readiness. According to the participants, program courses should provide more sufficient practice and content knowledge. In this way pre-service teachers can have opportunities to use their experiences gained during school readiness and transition to elementary school course to support young children’s school readiness. The results of the current study also indicated that pre-service teachers needed to develop an understanding of children’s school readiness in terms of definition, skills, factors, assessment, transition activities, and elementary school program so that they can be better prepared to teach with emphasis on the connections between preschool education and elementary school.

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Early childhood teachers.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20720

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B. Sicim, “ School readiness: changes in the views of prospective early childhood teachers following a pre-service school readiness and transition to elementary school cours,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2011.