The purpose of the current study is to determine pre-service teachers' opinions about 21st century learner and teacher skills. The study group of the current research is comprised of 391 senior students from an education faculty. As the data collection tool, the 21st century Learner Skills Use Questionnaire and 21st Century Teacher Skills Use Questionnaire were employed. In the analysis of the collected data, frequencies, percentages, arithmetic means, independent samples t-Test, One-Way Anova, Correlation, Mann Whitney-U, Kruskal Wallis techniques were used. The findings of the study revealed that the pre-service teachers' opinions about 21st century learner and teacher skills vary significantly depending on the variables of gender, department attended, academic achievement, experience of private tutoring and practicum teaching (doing practicum teaching at elementary and secondary schools). As a result, it was concluded that the pre-service teachers are ready for using 21st century learner skills (cognitive skills, autonomous skills, collaboration and flexibility skills, innovativeness skills) and teacher skills (administrative skills, technopedagogical skills, affirmative skills, flexible teaching skills, generative skills). However, it was also found that the pre-service teachers were not able to make enough use of learner and teacher skills during their practicum teaching at schools. Moreover, a positive, medium and significant correlation was found between 21st century learner skills and 21st century teacher skills.

ÖZETBu çalışma, öğretmen adaylarının öğretmen öz-yeterlik inançları ile mesleki kaygı durumlarının, cinsiyet, mezun olunan lise türü, sosyo-ekonomik düzey ve öğretmenlik programı değişkenlerine göre incelenmesini ve öğretmen öz-yeterlik inançları ile mesleki kaygı durumları arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla çalışmaya, 2014-2015 eğitim-öğretim yılı bahar yarıyılında Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi 4. sınıfta öğrenim gören toplam 589 öğretmen adayı katılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular sonucunda öğretmen adaylarının öz-yeterlik inançları ve mesleki kaygı düzeyleri; cinsiyet, mezun olunan lise türleri ve devam ettikleri programlara göre anlamlı farklılık göstermektedir. Ayrıca mesleki kaygı sosyo-ekonomik düzeye göre farklılaşırken öz-yeterlik inancı sosyo-ekonomik düzey değişkenine göre anlamlı bir farklılık göstermemektedir. Öz-yeterlik inanç ve mesleki kaygı durumları arasında pozitif düşük düzeyde korelasyon olduğu saptanmıştır.Anahtar Kelimeler: Öğretmen adayları, mesleki kaygı, öğretmen öz-yeterlik. AN INVESTIGATION OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' TEACHER SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS AND OPINIONS FOR THEIR PROFESSIONAL ANXIETIES ABSTRACTThe current study aims to investigate pre-service teachers' teaching self-efficacy beliefs and professional anxieties in relation to the variables of gender, the type of graduated high school, socio-economic level and the features of the teacher education program and the relationship between teaching self-efficacy beliefs and professional anxieties. To this end, the current study was conducted on 589 fourth-year pre-service teachers attending the Education Faculty of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University in 2014-2015 academic year. The findings of the study revealed that the preservice teachers' self-efficacy beliefs do not vary significantly depending on their gender, the type of the graduated high school and the program they are attending. Moreover, while their professional anxieties vary significantly depending on the socio-economic level, their self-efficacy beliefs do not vary significantly depending on the socio-economic level. The findings of the current study also showed that there is a positive low-level correlation between their self-efficacy beliefs and professional anxieties.Key Words: Pre-service teacher, professional anxiety, teaching self-efficacy.* Doç. Dr. Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü, sdeniz@mu.edu.tr ** Yrd. Doç. Dr. Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü, cansestican@mu.edu.tr Sabahattin DENİZ, Canses TİCAN 1839 1.GİRİŞÖz-yeterlik, gelecekteki olası durumları yönetmek için gerekli olan eylem biçimlerini organize etme ve uygulama yönünde kişinin sahip olduğu yetilere olan inancını ifade etmektedir. Öz-yeterlik inançları, insanların nasıl düşündüklerini, hissettiklerini, kendilerini nasıl motive ettiklerini ve davrandıklarını etkiler (Bandura, 2009).Öz-yeterlik kavramıyla ilişkili en önemli kavramlardan biri öğretmen öz-yeterlik inancı kavramıdır (Ekici, 2008...

Aim of this study is evaluating difficultiesThis study aims to evaluate difficulties the classroom teachers working in Muğla city center encountered in the process of preparing individualized education programs and their problems regarding revisions to be made in inclusive practices. In this study a descriptive research design was used and data were collected by using "Socio-Demographic Information Form", "Scale of Determining Difficulties in the Process of Preparing İndividüalizme Education Program (IEP)" developed by Tike-Bafra and Kargın (2009) and "Scale of Instructional Adaptations to Inclusion (SIMI)" developed by Kargın, Güldenoğlu and Şahin (2010). ÖzBu çalışmanın amacı Muğla ilinde görev yapan sınıf öğretmenlerinin bireyselleştirilmiş eğitim programı hazırlama sürecinde karşılaştıkları güçlükler ve kaynaştırma uygulamalarında yapılması gereken uyarlamalara ilişkin görüşlerini değerlendirmektir. Araştırmada betimsel desen kullanılmıştır. Verilerin toplanmasında 'Sosyo-Demografik Bilgi Formu', Tike-Bafra ve Kargın (2009) tarafından geliştirilen 'Bireysel Eğitim Programı (BEP) Hazırlama Sürecinde Karşılaşılan Güçlükleri Belirleme Ölçeği(KGBÖ)' ve Kargın, Güldenoğlu ve Şahin (2010) tarafından geliştirilen 'Kaynaştırmaya İlişkin Düzenlemeler Ölçeği(KİDÖ)' kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre; sınıf öğretmenlerinin BEP hazırlama sürecinde karşılaşabilecekleri güçlüklerin 'ailesinde özel gereksinimli birey olma, çalışma yeri, aile katılımı ve işbirliği' değişkenlerine göre farklılaşmadığı; buna karşın meslekte çalışma yılı, kaynaştırma öğrencisi olma, öğrencinin destek eğitimi alması, aldığı destek eğitim süresi' değişkenlerine göre farklılaştığı bulunmuştur. Kaynaştırmaya ilişkin düzenlemelerin ise; 'meslekte çalışma yılı, kaynaştırma öğrencisi olma, öğrencinin destek eğitim alması, aldığı destek eğitim süresi, aile katılımı' değişkenlerine göre farklılaşmadığı; buna karşın 'ailesinde özel gereksinimli birey olma' değişkenine göre farklılaştığı görülmektedir.Anahtar kavramlar: Bireyselleştirilmiş eğitim programı, kaynaştırmaya ilişkin düzenlemeler, öğretimsel düzenlemeler, fiziksel düzenlemeler, kaynaştırma öğrencisi, destek eğitim odası.

How much importance is attached to motivational strategies in foreign language teaching by student teachers and the extent to which instructors use them in their courses was investigated. The study was performed with 179 student teachers attending the English Language Teaching Department of Mugla University, Turkey. The findings revealed that these student teachers thought motivational strategies were very important for learning a foreign language, and that their instructors use some of these strategies but did not use other strategies considered to be important by the student teachers. Interviews showed that students thought studying the cultural values of the target language facilitates fluent use of that language and assists retention.

The article highlights the development and restructuring of teacher education policy in Turkey and reforms in late 1990s. It includes an overview of the history of modern teacher education in the country and outlines the current system. The purpose of this paper was to describe the nature of reforms and restructuring process based on post-graduate teacher education (PGCE) in the post-1997 period in Turkey that have had an impact on teacher educatio

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Due to social, economic and cultural conditions, preservice teachers' reasons for choosing the teaching profession differ from country to country. The purpose of the current study is to determine the factors affecting the choices of prospective teachers in the process of preferring the profession of teaching. The participants of the study were 230 voluntary preservice teachers randomly selected from among the students attending the pedagogical formation certificate program in the academic year of 2016-2017. Factors Influencing Teaching Choice scale (FIT-Choice scale) developed by Watt and Richardson (2007) and then adapted in the Turkish context by Kılınç, Watt and Richardson (2012) was used in the research. The correlation between the pedagogical formation students' motivation and level of perception in relation to their preferring the profession of teaching was investigated by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). It is seen that the obtained model has good fit indices. According to SEM, as a reason for choosing teaching as their profession, while the pedagogical formation students put greater emphasis on desire to work with children/adolescents and secure nature of the profession, they put less emphasis on transferability of teaching (job transferability) and use of the time allocated to the family. Moreover, their satisfaction with their decision to be a teacher seems to be great and it is observed that they have not been affected by the opinions of people around them.

The study investigates middle school students' attitudes towards technology and key variables influencing these attitudes. For this purpose, the present study was carried out among 1,396 students in the 6 th 7 th and 8 th grades (age range 12-15) attending 23 middle schools, of which 708 (50.7%) were female and 688 (49.3%) were male. A validated national version of Pupils' Attitude towards Technology (TR-PATT) was used to determine their attitudes towards technology. A majority of the students had positive attitudes towards technology. There were significant differences between male and female students' attitudes. Moreover, it was found that attending schools in urban areas, having prior technology training, and having parents with technology-related jobs had positive impacts on attitudes towards technology. However, as grade level increased, trust in technology decreased. They described technology in terms of household appliances, computers, and the internet and stated that it made life easier. A large majority of the students stated that technology was useful for the country; that, because of technology, everything works well; and that technology is the future.