AN ANAYLSIS ON PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ TEACHING CONCEPTION

Erdogan TEZCݹ , yalçın dilekli ² , Soner YILDIRIM³ , Serdan KERVAN⁴ , Fatmir MEHMETİ ⁵

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the pre-service teachers’ teaching conceptions differ with regards to different variables. The participants of the study consisted of 1021 male and 990 female pre-service teachers who have taken the teaching internship class at the senior class in faculty of education. The data were gathered with five- point Likert type Teaching Conception Scale. Data were analyzed using Independent-Samples t Test and One Way Variance Analysis methods as well as descriptive analysis. According to the results of the study female pre-service teachers have more student centered teaching conception rather than male pre-service teachers. The pre-service teachers who are educated in mathematics and science departments have more teachers centered teaching conception and adopt less student centered strategy in comparison with the pre-service teachers who are educated in social sciences. The results of the study demonstrate that for developing student centered teaching conception of pre-service teachers, teacher educators should be role model and student centered instruction methods should be used especially in science and technology departments.

Keywords
Special Education, Students with Special Needs, Competency, Teacher, Teacher Competency,