The relationship about some of the features of preschool teachers and their guidance qualifications

This research is aimed to examine the preschool teachers' guidance qualifications, according to some variables. The population of the research is all pre-school teachers working in pre-school institutions in Osmaniye city center in Turkey. Since the population is accessible, all of them were included in the study. In this context were studied with 175 preschool teachers. In order to collect the data was used "Teacher Information Form" which was prepared by the researcher and Bilgins' (2005) "Preschool Teacher's Guidance Qualifications Scale. For data analysis, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used. In addition, Tukey test was used to determine which groups had significant differences. In the study; it was found that there was no difference in the arithmetic means of preschool teachers' guidance qualifications scores according to age, type of school worked, type of school undergraduate education, vocational seniority, number of students in classroom, type of whether or not guidance training is received, type of training received for guidance, type of assessment by the preschool teachers about the adequacy of the training received for guidance, type of whether or not there is a psychological counselor at school and type of assessment of preschool teachers about guidance support received from the psychological counselor at school or (if he/she is not found) from RAM (Guidance and Research Center) or other institutions. In the study, it was found that the arithmetic means of guidance qualifications scores of preschool teachers who received guidance support from RAM (Guidance and Research Center) or other institutions in schools without psychological counselors were significantly higher than the preschool teachers who did not receive guidance support from these institutions. At the same time, the arithmetic means of guidance qualifications scores of those who found themselves "adequate" in the responsibilities of preschool teachers in guidance, were found to be significantly higher than those who found themselves "neither adequate nor inadequate" in the same responsibilities. However, there was no differentiation in the other groups. Also, it was found that the arithmetic means of guidance qualifications scores of preschool teachers who using the "Preschool Education Program" of the Ministry of National Education were significantly higher than their colleagues who did not use this program. Keywords: Preschool, preschool teacher, guidance qualifications.