TEACHER TRAINING SYSTEM IN TURKEY Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. Teachers! The new generation will be your devotion.

Some Notes On Teacher Training The teacher training programs are organized by YÖK (Higher Education Council) There are 69 Faculties of Education in total, affiliated to state universities and 5 belonging to private universities, each offering the same courses. The idea of a set curriculum is designed to standardise the education of teachers. Private universities also offer teacher training programmes

Teacher education Training of pre-primary and primary/basic school teachers 4 years undergraduate education Training of secondary school teachers 4 years undergraduate education for Foreign Language, Music, Drawing, Physical Education, Special Education, Computer and Teaching Technologies teachers, Teachers of Science, Maths and Social Fields to have Graduate Degree without thesis (3,5+1,5=5 years) and (4+1,5=5,5 years) options

Common Pedagogic Lessons Introduction to Teaching Profession Introduction to Psychology Learning Psychology Fundamentals of Guidance & Counseling Social Psychology Developmental Psychology Measurement & Evaluation Classroom Management Educational Administration School Experience (1 year )

Practical Placements and Experience All teachers in their first year are known as junior teachers. As part of the teacher training programme, trainee teachers are required to undertake a practical placement within a school every semester. The first semester is spent observing the teachers and students in the classroom. During the second, they begin to assist teachers with lesson planning and marking assignments. Trainee teachers Cover other aspects of teaching during this year, such as school administration and teaching legislation and regulations. Practical training normally ends at the end of one year by the evaluation of the tutor and an inspector coming from Ministry of Education.

English Language Teaching Certificate Programme The students who graduate from - English-American Language & Literature - Linguistics - Translation departments can participate in these certificate programmes in order to have the right to teach. The programme takes 1 academic year.

Anatolian Teacher High School These schools provide the studentsvwith the skills and knowledge a teachervshould have. It is somehow a vocational school. Students get additional 30 points at the national university entrance exam, if they choose a faculty of education.

APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS Teachers are appointed by the Ministery Of Education according to the service needs of the country via computers if they prefer to work in public schools. Private schools recruit teachers by following their own procedures.