The Importance of teaching profession lessons in teacher education

/ -.» III J.» «. I. J (ft SUMMARY \ ^^ Master Thesis. THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING PROFESSION LESSSONS IN TEACHER EDUCATİON Ergül SIRKINTI Fırat University The institute of Social Sciences Department of Educational Sciences The teachers have the higest responsibility in performing the educational servicers. The main objektive of education services is to enhance the individual to adapt himself or herself to the culture of the society in which he or she lives and yu prepare for the future. The teacher cause individual to gain these behaviours required to reach this goal. The necassary performance to be able to do this depends on the quality of pre-service education of teachers. The lessons given in pre-service education for professional competence can be divided into three groups: Teaching lessons courses, speciality lessons and general cultural lessons. Specialtiy lessons are necassary for the teachers in giving required skills and knowledges to students. In addition teacher should have knowledge of general culture. The basic feature of teaching profession lessons is to gain the qualification of teaching to candidates. In this study which aims to reveal this feature of teaching performance lessons are emphasized. Then a quastionnare which comprises 69 questions was prepared in order to determine the Teaching Performance Course for the teachers from other careers' organized by city national aducation directory at the end of 1996 - 1997 teaching yerm and appliedto these teachers.106 of 120 question were returned back by the partipants. The data from the questionares were tried to evaluate with respect to education. k