This study aims to evaluate the impact of a distance professional development course, within the framework of the Preschool Situational Self-Regulation Program (PRSIST), on the knowledge, beliefs, and skills of early childhood education teachers about self-regulation skills. One of the qualitative methods, the case study, was preferred for the…

The purpose of this research is to improve and evaluate a different approach to develop the lab application skills of the physics pre-service teachers in the courses of Secondary Physics Experimental Design (SPED), School Experience (SE) and Teaching Practices (TP). In this context, action research was used to achieve the purpose of the research.…

This study aims to find out the most important professional skill needs for prospective teachers, and whether they have a common view on their professional skill needs. Participants of the study were 36 prospective teachers at a university in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. The data were collected through 36 Q sentences. The results obtained in…

This study examined how the levels-of-sophistication framework supports pre-service mathematics teachers' professional noticing of students' reasoning about length measurement. Three pre-service teachers were asked to analyse students' written solutions in the tasks that reflected different characteristics of students' reasoning before and after…

This study investigates the development of prospective secondary mathematics teachers' (PSMTs') noticing skills in a course conducted at the last year of their teacher education program. PSMTs watched and analysed different instructional videos, including an unknown teacher's, their mentor teacher's, and their own teaching videos. The data were…

In this action research study, it was aimed to develop proficiency in Science Laboratory Practices (SLP) for prospective classroom teachers (PCTs) with the online flipped learning model in the distance education process in the COVID-19 pandemic. A 14-week course was designed for the study. The results demonstrated that PCTs showed proficiency…

The aim of this study is to find out the effects of micro-reflective teaching practices on the professional skill development of pre-service physics teachers. It was planned as an experimental study with one group pretestposttest and supported by the case study method. The data were collected by using professional skill scale, observation form and…

This study aims to reveal the opinions of pre-service teachers who study in history department of Usak University Faculty of Science and Letters about pedagogical formation education. In the research, the design of the phenomenological research was used in the design of the qualitative research method. In the analysis of the data, descriptive…

This study aimed to examine preservice classroom teachers' opinions on how educational games improve their teaching skills. In accordance with this purpose, the qualitative research design was employed. The study group was composed of 60 preservice teachers course attending the Department of Primary Education in the Faculty of Education at a state…

Microteaching is a practice-based teaching method that can be applied at various stages in teacher training programs and it gives the opportunity to engage in self-evaluation and to eliminate or correct inadequacies of both pre-service and in-service teachers. It is believed that this study is important in determining the inadequacies of…

Teacher education has been one of the most debated topics in history of Turkish education. At the beginning of the teacher's career, the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MONE) implemented the Candidate Teacher Training Program in 2016, so the teachers accepted to the profession were qualified as "candidate teachers" and they were…

Achievement in primary school science courses has always been a field of interest by researchers in Turkey and other countries. For this reason, studies are conducted on science teaching at the primary school level. This study aimed to examine strengths and weaknesses of pre- and in-service primary teachers in science teaching. In addition, to…

The purpose of this instrumental case study is to investigate mathematics and science teacher candidates' (TCs) beliefs about questioning and acquisition of questioning skills. Twenty-eight seniors from a major university in northern Turkey volunteered for the study. We conducted one to one semi-structured interviews with 10 of the TCs, the…

This study aims to investigate the effect of the reflective teaching practice on the development of teaching skills of the pre-service teachers. This study is designed in the form of action research due to the nature of the case examined. The participants were 32 pre-service teachers at Bayburt University Faculty of Education Department of…

The aim of this research is to improve multimodal literacy skills of Turkish language teacher candidates. For this purpose, first of all; the existing conditions of teacher candidates about multimodal literacy have been determined. An implementation process is designed based upon the identified shortcomings. In this study, which is designed with…