Problems and solution proposals in "School Experience and Teaching Practice" courses in department of mathematics education

• Published in: The online journal of new horizons in education Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 89 - 100
• Main Authors: Büyükalan Filiz,Sevil, Bakırcı,Cansu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sakarya Üniversitesi Yayınları 01-04-2018
• Subjects: Eğitim Bilimleri; Sakarya; Türkiye; School Experience and Teaching Practice; mathematics education
• ISSN: 2146-7374; 2146-7374

The aim of this study is to determine the problems experienced by the pre-service mathematics teachers,course
lecturers and practice teachersduring the School Experience and Teaching Practice courses and solutions that are
suggested for these problems. This study is a qualitative study.The study group of the research consists of 40
students who are senior students in the spring semester of 2016-2017 academic year in Gazi University, Faculty
of Education and 14 course lecturers and 8 practice teachers who took part in the School Experience and
Teaching Practice courses.Astructured interview form was used as data collection tool. Study results
demonstrated that most frequently mentioned problems are thatpractice teachersdo not allow pre-service
teachers to teach four lesson hours that pre-service teachers are obliged to, the insufficiency of school
administrators and coordinators' knowledge of the new implementation system, lack of communication,
cooperation and coordination between the university and the school and insufficient evaluation.