The Opinions of Teacher Candidates Receiving Pedagogical Formation Training on Their Perception of Instructors

Abstract

At every level of education, it is important how teachers are perceived by their students. It is seen that students' positive or negative perception of their teachers affects their attitudes towards school or their success. In this context, it was tried to examine the perception levels of the teaching staff of the teacher candidates who came to the faculty of education and received pedagogical formation training. As a data collection tool in the research. The Perceived Instructor Behaviors Scale was applied to 271 pre-service teachers who received pedagogical formation training at İnönü University on how they evaluated the attitudes of their instructors. When the results of the research are examined, it is seen that female pre-service teachers are more positive than male pre-service teachers according to the understanding sub-dimension of their perceptions on faculty members. When the relationship between the attitude scores of the teacher candidates towards the teaching profession and the age of the teacher candidate was examined, it was determined that there was no significant relationship. The variable of employment (work) status does not differentiate the perception according to the faculty members. When the branch variable was examined, it was determined that the teacher candidates were effective in perceiving the instructors. The differentiation between the branches was generally observed to be different in the perceptions of the Turkish language and literature department and those in other departments compared to the faculty members. Obtained data show that pre-service teachers see their instructors as understanding in pedagogical formation education.