Views of School Administrators Related to In-service Training Activities

Abstract

The aim of this research is to specify the views of school administrators views related to in-service training activities. In this research, semi-structured interview method, one of the qualitative research methods, has been used. Content analysis has been used in order to analyze the interview data and themes and sub-themes have been constituted. The target population of the research is consisted of 20 school administrators working in the city centre of Eskişehir having joined in-service training activities in 2012-2013 academic years. It has been seen at the end of the research that the school administrators, within the scope of developing their skills, occupational development and performance and developing motivation, increasing their awareness and knowledge level with regard to the current legislation and changes in the regulations. It is concluded that school administrators have different views with regard to in-service training in the themes such as type of participation, aims of participation, durations of in-service training programs, time of in-service training program, evaluation of training program.

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“…Types of facilities may be time relaxation, easy provision of study leave, lessen work load. Findings are similar to some extent with findings of Gungor and Yildirim (2016) as they found that school administrators arrange in-service training activities for the teachers in the scope of growing their capabilities, occupational development, performance, motivation, increasing awareness and knowledge level. Table 7 shows that range of correlation matrix of variable for this group is from .761 to .568, value of total variance lies at 6.382 and value of Cronbach alpha is .627.…”

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“…Bu bağlamda katılımcılar, hizmet içi eğitimin gerekli olduğu, bu uygulamalara istekle katıldıkları ve hizmet içi eğitim uygulamalarının mesleki gelişimlerine katkı sağladığı yönünde görüş belirtmişlerdir. Alanyazındaki bir çok çalışma sonuçları da yönetici ve öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitim uygulamalarını gerekli gördükleri (Gönen ve Kocakaya, 2006;Gültekin ve Çubukçu, 2008;Özen, 2006;Seferoğlu, 2004;Şen, 2003), hizmet içi eğitim faaliyetlerine katılımda istekli oldukları ve hizmet içi eğitim faaliyetlerinin mesleki gelişimlerine katkı sağladığı (Güngör ve Yildirim, 2016;Nartgün, 2006;Pepeler, Murat ve Akmençe, 2016) yönündedir.…”