Okul Öncesi Öğretmenliği Lisans Programı yeterliliklerinin belirlenmesi ve yeterliliklere dayalı bir program değerlendirmesi
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2021
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Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü
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Preschool period has a significant place in education process in terms of children's physical, intellectual and mental development. Preschool period during which children develop rapidly constitutes the basis of human life and other levels of education. It is well-known that preschool period is interrelated with student achievement in compulsory education and developlent of social and personal traits. This study aims to compare professional competencies of preschool teacher education developed in United States of America, United Kingdom and Australia with program competencies developed by Ministry of National Education in Turkey to develop a preschool teacher education bachelor program competencies proposal. Also it aims to evaluate the courses in the program in terms of correspondence to the competencies in the proposal. Survey method was applied in the study. The study group consists of faculty members working for preschool teacher training departments of faculties of education in Turkey. During the process of development of the competencies proposal, nine faculty members were interviewed and opinions of 100 faculty members were obtained. The data was gathered with an opinion collection form and an online survey. In the first stage of the development process of the competencies proposal, Professional competencies developed in the countries included in the study were reviewed via document analysis and First Preschool Teacher Education Bachelor Program Competencies Draft was formed. Then, opinions of experts on the first competencies draft were acquired, the proposed changes and revisions were made and Second Preschool Teacher Education Bachelor Program Competencies Draft was prepared. Finally, opinions of academic staff in Turkey on the draft were acquired and Preschool Teacher Education Bachelor Program Competencies Proposal was developed. Besides, preschool teacher education program developed by Council of Higher Education was evaluated in context of the competencies in the proposal developed. As a result of the study, it was determined that preschool teacher education program must be developed mainly on competencies on supporting learning and competencies on health, safety and nutrition and all other areas. Besides, it was found out that the preschool teacher education program must be developed in a way to make teacher candidates acquire high level affective competencies such as possessing teacher identity, supporting the value of the teaching profession in society and continuous professional development. In the light of the findings of the study, it was recommended that program development studies must be conducted on the inadequate aspects of the program taking the competencies proposal developed into account, the number of courses involving practice as well as courses aiming to develop high level and affective competencies must be increased and courses must be added to enhance competencies found to be insufficient in the program.
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Okul öncesi öğretmenliği, Öğretmen eğitimi, Program yeterlilikleri, Öğretmen yeterlilikleri