مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Attitudes of Student Teachers Towards Teaching Profession: Uludag University Sample

Abstract :

The present study aims to contribute to the development of the positive attitudes of the teacher candidates studying at the Education Faculty of Uludag University towards the profession of teaching by revealing their attitudes towards the profession. In the study, 536 teacher candidates were included in the sample. In the study, the Personal Information Form was used to gather demographic information about the teacher candidates and the “Attitude Scale for the Profession of Teaching” developed by Çetin (2006) was used to determine their attitudes towards the profession of teaching. The results of the analyses revealed that the scores obtained by the teacher candidates from the Attitude Scale for the Profession of Teaching differed according to gender, department, their future institutions, reasons canalizing the profession, academic success means. It was determined that a great majority of the teacher candidates desire to work in a state educational institution. Teacher training institutions’ motivating their students in the direction of both academic success and the profession of teaching appears to be an important factor in the training of successful teachers loving their job.