The aim of this study is to determine the metaphors elementary pre-service teachers' used regarding Life Sciences. This study was conducted with the participation of 130 teacher candidates from elementary education in Faculty of Education at Muğla University. A questionnaire consisted of open ended questions has been created to determine the views of teacher candidates regarding Life Sciences. The questions are generally similar to "Life Sciences is like ….. ; because …..". Teacher candidates' views regarding Life Sciences has been analyzed with content analysis technique. After the study, it's been seen that teachers created 49 metaphors such as addressing requirements, an indispensable element, connected to each other, guiding, extensive content, creating curiosity and excitement, creating awareness, real life experience, source of energy, problem solving, and negative effect. As a result, it has been found out that teacher candidates are aware of the importance of Life Sciences. However, there are some teacher candidates having negative thoughts regarding Life Sciences.
The main purpose of this study is to determine the teachers' opinions about orientation and preparation activities. The data of the study in which qualitative research method is used is confined by semi-structure interview with ten primary school teachers. In the process of analyzing the data, description-analyze method has been used. In the research, some themes including activity, time, student, preparing for other courses, teacher, parents and suggestions have been reached. Sub-themes and codes belonging to the each theme have been identified and some example views are taken place by quoting from teachers to explain the codes which are identified. As a result of the research, teachers notified that activities are simple and also inadequate for preparing students for the other lessons and time is inadequate and unplanned as well, and they also emphasized that the activities are difficult for students, and finally, due to their class-roles, teachers commented that they have some difficulties on class-management and they also commented on some different attitudes of parents.
ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı, öğretmen adaylarının bilişüstü stratejiler kapsamında kullandıkları planlama, izleme, değerlendirme ve duyuşsal stratejilerinin akademik başarıları yordama
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