Perceptions of beginning teachers on pre service teacher preparation in Turkey

2014-01-01
Öztürk, Mustafa
Yıldırım, Ali
The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of beginning teachers on preservice teacher education. Through a survey, 465 beginning teachers working in randomly selected provinces of Turkey assessed the benefits of their pre-service programs. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The results of the study indicated that the participant teachers’ perceptions on their pre-service trainings were not positive and that these perceptions changed significantly by the type of faculty they graduated from, the amount of practice teaching they did during their pre-service years, the existence of a mentor teacher as a part of practice teaching done during pre-service years, and their teaching fields
Journal of Teacher Education and Educators

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Citation Formats
M. Öztürk and A. Yıldırım, “Perceptions of beginning teachers on pre service teacher preparation in Turkey,” Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, pp. 149–166, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77670.