The basic objective of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between spiritual leadership, school culture, and academic success. The data were collected by mixed method from teachers working in seven high schools and five achievement low level high schools in Şanlıurfa in 2018. The data obtained from the teachers were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. The conducted analyses revealed two important results. First, it can be claimed that as spiritual leadership perception of teachers increase, so does their school culture perception. The second result is the impact of both spiritual leadership and school culture on academic success. Therefore, the impact of spiritual leadership and school culture on two variables (high success, low success) has been examined separately. As the spiritual leadership and school culture perception of teachers increase, so does academic success.
Recent technological developments have made access to information easy. Today, countries are giving shape to their educational policies by including information technologies in their education systems. One of the information technologies that are in wide use is smart boards. This research aims to determine the positive and negative impacts of smart board usage on class management. The difficulties teachers experience in class management, skills of teachers in terms of ensuring motivation in the class, their levels of using technologies, abilities to use computer and computer programs, and attitudes towards preparing and benefiting e-content are all taken into consideration. Based on the research findings, we concluded that smart board usage has a positive impact on in-class communication and makes the courses fun and entertaining. The students are said to be more careful and concentrated, and this makes it easier for teachers to manage the classroom while positively affecting time management. Keywords: Teachers, smart board, classroom management, technology, productivity.
Based on the opinions and views of the senior students of theology faculties on the Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge Practical course, which they take in the last phase of their undergraduate education, it is important in terms of religious education and practical course to determine the problems they experience. The research aims to determine the difficulties experienced by novice teachers while testing basic practices about the teaching profession. As a result, it is aimed to train successful teachers for education. The research was carried out with 30 volunteer pre-service teachers who participated in the Practical Course from the senior students of the Faculty of Theology in the 2019 year. The research data were obtained using a qualitative method consisting of five open-ended questions. The content analysis method was used in analyzing the data. According to the findings of the research, the duration adequacy of the Teaching Practical course was seen as a small problem. In addition, it was revealed that the implementation items in the Teaching Practical course instruction were found to be inadequate. It was stated that the guidance of the instructor responsible for the Teaching Practical course was not adequate. Problems such as KPSS, faculty courses, excitement, and inexperience arising from the pre-service teachers themselves were identified. The other of the results obtained in the study are the problems caused by the practice school and the practice teacher.
This survey aims to evaluate the social promotion of class-repeating students, applied with the changes in regulations made by the TRNC Ministry of National Education, for promotion to a higher grade from the viewpoints of Ministry of Education and school administrators, parents, teachers and students. For this survey, the semi-structured qualitative interviews were used. A total of 100 participants were interviewed, including school administrators, teachers and students in a high school. Based on the findings, we concluded that social promotion of the failed students to a higher grade is a defective practice. Also, it is hard in Cyprus to try to fulfill learning deficiencies in the higher grade. Lastly, the ongoing practice of social promotion enforced in recent years was favoured, because the authorities aimed at preventing possible overcrowding in lower grades rather than meeting the requirements of contemporary educational system. Thus, this educational policy in concern has numerous disadvantages.
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