ABSTRACT.This research was carried out to examine the place of the concept of violence in schools as one of the major problems in social life and how the violence-related news reflects in a variety of newspapers. In this study, questions were searched for the answer about: how the news headlines containing violence in schools are given; how the definitions and notions used in school-related violent headlines are given; which pages the reports of violence are published in; how the pictures used in violent news in education are given; what types of violence take place in the news; the forms of psychological violence used in schools; the reasons of violence in schools; the status of the settlements which the violence in schools takes place; which tools are used during the violence in schools; the gender ratios of individuals who are subject to reports about violence in school, the distribution of perpetrators according to the ages. According to the results of the study, between the years of 1998 and 2004, the harassment cases in schools increased from 5.97% to 9.15%; Stabbing incidents in schools increased from 1.49% to 4.23% ; the news about the drug events that took place in press as a source of violence in schools increased from 4.48% to 10.56%. In the news published in newspapers, among the reasons of violence in schools, while the attitude of the teachers took the first place in 1998, the attitudes of the parents and the socio-economic problems took the first place in 2004.
This study aims to find out the attitude of preservice teachers of Ağrı İ.Ç. University Faculty of Education who study at the Department of Elementary Turkish Education to the statements related to preservice teachers and competence of lecturers. A-) The statements related to preservice teachers includes following statements: "Productivity of the courses taken in the school enable them to understand the qualifications that a teacher must have.", "Students take advantages of the education process which brings them sufficient teaching experience", "During their education, students experience many fascinating features related to teaching professions which they haven't seen before.", "Opportunities and facilities that the students have in the school let them have rich variety of experiences related to communication with people.", "The students who have thought that they couldn't be teacher understand they are in wrong to assume it after they experience teaching." B-) The statements related to competence of lecturers includes following statements: "Lecturers have enough professional competence since they have received decent undergraduate education.", "Lecturers can convey their knowledge to students by showing their class related to class management and employing different methods to teach since they don't teach the lessons with the exception of their professional fields.", "Lecturers can plan the teachinglearning process successfully thanks to their professional teaching knowledge.", "Scientific dignity that the lecturers have thanks to their competence makes them reach the exemplary positions.", "The high level of service delivery qualifications which the lecturers have thanks to their competence makes the students apply their knowledge to real life." A questionnaire which includes questions related to A-) the statements related to preservice and B-) the statements related to competence of lecturers is conducted to determine the attitudes of preservice teachers towards. A-) The statements related to preservice teachers and B-) The statements related to competence of lecturers. The sample for the research is composed of 121 preservice teachers of Ağrı İ.Ç. University Faculty of Education who study at the Department of Elementary Turkish Education. According to the findings of the research; it is seen that the preservice teachers have answered the questions containing information on A-) the statements related to preservice and B-) the statements related to competence of lecturers with variable rates. The results which are mentioned above make it possible to come to that conclusion that preservice teachers have responded to questionnaire which is reliable according to its Cronbach's Alpha value (α=0.91) in varying ratios (Field, 2013). Keywords:The statements related to preservice teachers, The statements related to competence of lecturers.
The purpose of this study is to determine undesirable behaviours of primary school students, to define the factors leading to these behaviours and to detect the methods applied by teachers for changing these undesirable behaviours. The data of this research were obtained through a survey comprised of two sections developed by the researcher. This survey including three open-ended questions was applied to 355 teachers and the data gathered were assessed usingdescriptive analysis method. Undesirable student behaviours that teachers encounter in the classroom seem to be talking without asking permission for it, walking around in the classroom without permission, continuously complaining about friends, not acting responsibly in compliance with group activities, talking disrespectfully to the teacher, acting pretending to be the characters in TV series, jealousy in relationship with friends, and having attention deficit. Teachers consider that the reasons for these undesirable behaviours are the fact that parents interfere in education-teaching process, extremely spoil their children, compare their children with their peers, force them to participate in various courses, act as if they were teachers in their relationships with teachers and that there are not adequate playgrounds in school yards, there is vulnerability of safety in schools, there are not adequate fields for activities of sports in schools. It is observed that the primary school teachers who paticipated in the research use for changing these undesireable behaviours the method of reminding classroom rules, calling the student's name, giving advices, encouraging for apologising, warning trough eye contact, changing seats of students, complaining about the student to his/her parents, prohibiting students from having a break, retracing to the source of the problem, visiting the student at home, discussing the problem with the school counselor and ignoring the behaviour.
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