Today’s children are born into a digital world and are exposed to various electronic devices and digital contents both in the home environment and other environments since the first years of life. Children, who are a natural recipient of the environment in which they live, are exposed to the effects of the digital world at different levels and reflect these effects in different ways. The purpose of the reported study is to investigate if preschoolers’ daily media usage habits affects their drawings. This study is planned according to the case study design of qualitative research methods. The study was conducted with 15 preschoolers and their parents. There were nine boys and six girls in the study. The preschoolers’ drawings and their parents’ interview data were analyzed by using the descriptive analyzing method. The study result shows that there are differences between boys and girls media usage habits. Boys spend more time with media tools than girls. Additionally, boys are exposed to more inappropriate content because of their preferences. The analysis of their drawings revealed that boys are more affected than girls from media contents since boys’ drawings include more characters from media than girls. It can thus be suggested that media tools might be harmful when they are used in a developmentally inappropriate way, and excessive media tool usage has negative impact on children. Therefore, the reported study recommends that parents and caregivers take some precautions to limit preschoolers from spending time with media tools and to control content of children’s activity.

<p>Self-regulation skills allow individuals to control emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. Teachers' management of their behaviors, emotions, and thoughts could impact their classroom management too. Thus, teachers' self-regulation and classroom management relationships were analyzed in the study. To date, emotional regulation was studied, but self-regulation has not been studied in classroom management context. The study was designed as a quantitative study. Two hundred forty-four early childhood in-service teachers participated in the study. Correlation tests were used to analyze gathering data. The study result shows that self-regulation skills and classroom management are not correlated. On the other hand, there is a relationship between all three sub dimensions of self-regulation (self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self-reinforcement) and classroom management skills. The study result suggests that the early childhood teachers' self-reinforcement is positively correlated with classroom management skills. In addition, self-evaluation and self-monitoring are negatively correlated with classroom management. The study recommends that the teachers could increase their classroom management skills with internal or external rewards. Furthermore, the teachers can use some standard grade scales to observe whether they have misconceptions about classroom management strategies objectively.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0957/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

The current study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the collaborative teacher and academic supervisor's mentoring in practicum classes in early childhood education. The study is designed as qualitative research, and an unstructured interview form is used. Twelve pre-service teachers from early childhood education department who participated in the school experience or practice teaching course are samples of the study. The results show that the guiding process is not efficient, especially for classroom management strategy. Additionally, inappropriate feedback of collaborative teachers and academic supervisors do not help to develop pre-service in the profession. In addition, incompatibility between collaborative teachers' and academic supervisors' request is a problem for pre-service teachers in the practicum process. The study recommends that collaborative teachers and academic supervisors could participate in a mentoring training program, and the collaborative teachers and academic supervisors could have a meeting before the teaching experience course.