The Relationship Between Teacher Candidates' Attitudes Towards Teacher Credentialing Courses and Instructor Behavior

Universal Journal of Educational Research 5(12): 2274-2285, 2017 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2017.051218 The Relationship between Teacher Candidates' Attitudes towards Teacher Credentialing Courses and Instructor Behavior İbrahim Gül College of Education, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey Copyright©2017 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The aim of this research is to examine the One of the factors that prepare teacher candidates to relationship between the attitudes of prospective teachers become good teachers is the instructors in education towards teaching profession courses and teaching staff facilities. The instructors in education facilities contribute behaviors. The research is a quantitative study. The study's to the knowledge and skills of prospective teachers with study group is composed of 537 education faculty student. their academic identity and contribute to their emotional 'Attitude Scale towards Credentialing Courses' and development by serving as a role model. According to 'Instructor Behavior Assessment Scale' were used as data students, the qualifications and attitudes of the instructors collection tools in the research. Teacher candidates, faculty are seen as one of the factors that affect the quality in members behave adequately. However, prospective training teachers [2]. According to instructors of education teachers' attitudes towards credentialing courses were faculties, teaching in the department of education requires found to be low. The opinions of the candidate teachers do being a teacher [3]. not differ according to gender, department, academic Teachers who train individuals and prepare them for life achievement, mother education status, but there are must have professional competences. These qualifications, differences according to the father education status and gained through pre-service training, consist of the financial status of the family. A positive relationship was knowledge, skills and beliefs that a teachers must possess found between the behaviors of the lecturers and the so that they can teach effectively and efficiently [4, 5]. In attitudes of the prospective teachers towards the this sense, the right attitude and interest towards the credentialing courses and it was understood that this was a profession, motivation and enthusiasm toward teaching, predictor. and mental health of teachers are among the most important factors playing a role in the success of school Keywords Candidate Teacher, Credentialing Courses, programs [6]. Factors such as teaching, school Teaching Staff Behaviors collaboration, interaction, guidance, student learning should be emphasized in the process of teacher training [7; 8; 9; 10; 11]. Teachers' pre-service training, carried out in the 1. Introduction education departments, contains the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors required by the teaching profession It is a well-known fact that the positive attitudes and for teacher candidates. This training is generally gained behaviors towards the teaching profession are gained with through coursework on general knowledge, content through credentialing courses about teaching. According to knowledge and pedagogical knowledge [12]. General Senenoğlu (1989), the basic concepts and principles of knowledge courses offer a holistic perspective to the teaching are acquired through credentialing courses. These prospective teacher. Content courses give them the courses help teachers to develop positive attitudes towards knowledge and skills required by their field. Whatever their profession while ensuring their ability to adapt to their field is, credentialing courses provide pedagogical changing conditions [1]. Credentialing courses about the knowledge, that is, the art of teaching, to all prospective teaching profession, which help teacher candidates to teachers. The content of these courses consists of learning develop positive attitudes towards their profession, have a and teaching principles, classroom management, student significant place in the education curriculum. assessment, managing student behaviors, guidance and Universal Journal of Educational Research 5(12): 2274-2285, 2017 2275 school management. In addition to this theoretical will experience positive affect and increase their active knowledge, they teach skills on how to practice the participation in the classroom [27]. Teacher behavior teaching profession. The achievements mentioned above mostly affects the interest and participation of students in are counted among competences that must be found in the classes [28; 29]. good teaching [13]. Increasing quality of the education of teacher candidates Teacher candidates who want to become teachers and and their qualifications refers to the product orientation of who prefer education departments for this purpose are teacher training activities. Strang [30] suggests that teacher expected to have a high interest toward credentialing candidates should take courses on child development, courses on teaching. Teacher candidates studying in teaching practices and learning for the development of primary school teaching and pre-school teaching have teaching. Besides the ability to recognize students and mostly expressed that credentialing courses have positive school, monitoring the teaching process and classroom effects on their professional development [14]. According learning activities, ability to understand differences [31], as to Kara and Sağlam (2014) regarding the evaluation of Mangin and Stoelinga (2010) pointed out, knowledge and teachers' pedagogical knowledge courses in terms of giving skills should be gained to meet the expectations of the proficiency to the teaching-learning process, it was found school and its employees [32], to increase the leadership that the candidate teachers had negative attitudes towards roles of the teachers, to enrich teaching and to improve these courses couldn’t relate these courses to themselves student learning. The increase in qualifications in teacher and profession, which led them to not favor those courses education is also related to the effectiveness of their in comparison to major area courses [15]. programs in education facilities as well as the quality of In addition, it was indicated that the performance instructors who conduct it [33, 34, 35, 36]. indicators of the teaching-learning process related to The teaching members who work in the Higher teaching professional knowledge (ÖMB) courses of Education Institutions respect every individual’s dignity instructors were reflected in the courses, with prospective and values. They endeavor to protect the freedom of teachers gaining approximately half of the performance democratic culture; to develop scientific research, learning indicators. Güleç (2012) found that the average values of and teaching; and to provide all people with equal access to the attitudes of prospective teachers in the music those [37]. The faculty members in various faculties are department toward credentialing courses about teaching professional teachers whose academic identities have lower values than the average value of teacher encompass teaching as well. The instructors who work in candidates in history, geography, preschool, and painting the education facilities and educate the teachers of the departments [16]. The opinions of prospective teachers in future should be aware of their roles in training and the health department about credentialing courses were modeling by being intentional about their behavior [38]. found to be more positive than teacher candidates in music According to Carr (2000), the lifestyle, professional and English departments. In another study, it was found practices, attitudes and behaviors of the instructors have that the achievement averages of the major area courses of profound influence on the students [39, 40]. physical education teacher candidates were higher than the University instructors are those who are responsible for credentialing courses [17]. designing and developing educational programs in Teacher training consists of two variables as process and universities, developing student support and counseling product. While the process is related to the teacher's actions responsibilities and creating and using appropriate in the teaching process as well as the classroom activities, teaching-learning environments for students for the the product variable is related with student quality [6; 18]. purposes of their educational programs. One of the most According to these concepts, active participation of important responsibility of the university instructors is prospective teachers in the teaching process and classroom related with the teaching and learning field is that they activities is very important. In fact, this is related to the adapt themselves to the present conditions by innovating attitudes of prospective teacher candidates towards and developing their professional skills [41, 42; 35, 36]. In credentialing courses. Teacher candidates are seen in some addition, instructors should develop themselves primarily studies to not be interested in pedagogical knowledge [19; in the areas of curriculum, teaching processes and learning 20, 21]. In another study, the students of fine arts education processes, using educational technologies, classroom found themselves to be unsuccessful in credentialing management techniques, assessment,

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