High-quality IEP goals developed based on a comprehensive assessment of child functioning are more likely to result in individualisation of services and improved learning outcomes for students with disabilities. This study investigated the impact of a training programme on the quality of individualised education programme (IEP) goals written by…

The aim of this study was to determine the professional developments of science teacher candidates over 14 weeks of microteaching practices. The sample for the study was comprised of 9 teacher candidates aged 21-23 who were studying their final year (4th year) in an elementary science education undergraduate programme of an education faculty in…

Teaching practice, which has a significant impact on the professional development of pre-service teachers, has been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic process, preservice teachers have conducted teaching practice through distance education. The aim of this study is to determine whether the pre-service teachers have…

The Teaching Practice Course is the most important course for student teachers to gain professional qualifications. This course will be able to achieve its goals through the healthy communication that mentor teachers will establish with the student teachers. This research focuses on the communication and interaction between student and mentor…

"Possible selves" theory describes how a person thinks about his or her own future potential. Based on past and present self-images, understanding one's "possible self" can be an incentive for one's future behavior. Social structures, cultures, identities and genders may affect the development of "possible selves."…

The aim of this research is to evaluate the contribution of the feedback given based on Clinical Supervision Model to the professional development of a science teacher candidate. In the study, feedback was given to the science teacher candidate throughout the academic year within the framework of Clinical Supervision Practices. The candidate gave…

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is defined as the teacher knowledge needed for effective technology integration. This study aimed to investigate preservice elementary mathematics teachers' TPACK development. TPACK survey was administered to 33 preservice teachers (PSTs), and six of them were selected via maximum variation…

Transformative human rights education (HRE) implies a pedagogic intention to generate human rights cultures, protecting against and preventing human rights violations. This article draws on Freirean critical pedagogy to define transformative HRE as requiring four pedagogical principles: an explicit pedagogic intention; critical engagement on…

The current research was conducted to evaluate the views of mentor and pre-service teachers participating school-based practicum about the effectiveness of Web 2.0 based supervision. The implementation process with a pilot study in the research lasted two years. In the pilot study, the evaluation of school-based practicum was made within the…

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the teaching practice process carried out with the lesson study model. In this research "action research" approach was adopted. The study group of the research consisted of four Turkish Language and Literature pre-service teachers. Lesson study was carried out in nine weeks of the teaching…

This study sought to determine the opinions of prospective teachers studying in the last year of the social studies undergraduate program about the school experience. More specifically, it was aimed to determine the views of social studies preservice teachers concerning the necessity of the school experience course, the contribution of the course…

This study set out to examine student misbehaviors confronted in preschool classrooms, intervention types to these misbehaviors, and the problematic areas that pre-service teachers experienced in preschool classroom management during teaching practice based on senior preservice preschool teachers' observation and experiences during teaching…

The study is conducted to examine the effects of school practice courses on prospective physical education teachers' attitudes towards their professions. 73 pre-service teachers, 30 women and 43 men, who took teaching practice courses in the spring semester of 2018-2019, participated in the study at the Department of Physical Education and Sport…

This paper presents a narrative inquiry approach to understanding the early professional development (PD) of student teachers of English at a state university in Turkey. With the twofold functioning of narrative as a tool for both research and PD, we probe into how student teachers' early PD trajectories are shaped through observational narrative…

Turkish early childhood pre-service teachers had to follow their student teaching practicum courses through emergency remote teaching on the online platform available to them during COVID-19 pandemic like in most countries. The pre-service teachers were experimenting with this new form of student teaching practicum by building up new knowledge and…