An Analysis of The Relationship Between Pre-School Teachers’ Beliefs of High/Scope Approach And Self- Efficacy

This study is an attempt to analyze the relationship between pre-school teachers’ beliefs of High/Scope and self-efficacy. Another purpose of the study is to provide a source for High/ Scope approach which is not a common research area in Turkey, and to raise an awareness in teachers regarding High/Scope approach to make them adopt this approach for their systems and make use of it. The method of the research is relational screening model. The sample of the study includes 346 pre-school teachers working in independent and private pre-school education institutions in 8 central districts of Ankara province. The participants were willing to participate in the study. At the end of the study, it was seen that there is a positive and weak relationship between pre-school teachers’ beliefs of High/Scope approach and learning-teaching process and communication skills that are the sub-dimensions of self-efficacy beliefs (r= .200, r= .212; p 0.01). In addition, a medium level positive relationship was detected between their beliefs of High/Scope approach and parental involvement, planning, organization of learning environments, and classroom management (r=.332, r=.348, r=.349, r=.309; p 0.01).