Choosing teaching as a career includes many different factors, reasons and parameters. These factors can vary in time by the changes in the culture, politics, or society. Teachers and their reasons about why they chose teaching as a career have been an important issue for researchers. Many researches have been done to understand the reasons of the…

We report on mixed methods research that explored pre-service teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in basic musical methods for teaching and learning of basic fractions within the framework of Vygotsky's Theory of Scaffolding. Vygotsky's use of scaffolding opines that knowledge, skills and prior experiences, create the foundation for potential…

Online learning opportunities provide students with a chance to have education regardless of time and space. Accordingly, pre-service teachers should be familiar with the use of social networks for both their own learning and also for teaching purposes. In this way, they can utilise social networks efficiently to improve their teaching and the…

The aim of this research is to examine the structural relationships between metacognitive thinking skills, critical thinking standards and academic self-efficacy of teacher candidates. The research was carried out according to the relational survey method and structural equation modelling was done in the analysis of the data. The data of the study…

This research was carried out in order to examine the occupational anxiety levels of the teacher candidates in terms of some variables and to determine their opinions about the occupational concerns of the teacher candidates. The research was carried out in the 2016-2017 Academic Year with the participation of a total of 377 teacher candidates…

The aim of this study is to compare the attitudes of freshman and senior pre-service teachers pursuing an undergraduate degree in an elementary mathematics education program toward teaching profession and to reveal the kind of relationship that exists between these attitudes. Case study method was used in the study. As a data collecting tool, A…