The examination of environmental attitude and metacognitive skills of classroom teacher candidates

In this study, it is aimed to examine environmental attitude and metacognitive skills of pre-service primary school teachers. This research has been used relational comb model. Environmental attitude and metacognitive skills about environmental problems at classroom teacher relationship with their consumer profile, their localization unit at longest time, level of their parents education, ?Environment Science? course has been determined ?Metacognitive Skills Levels to Environmental Problems Scale? which are developed by the researcher and ?Environmental Attitude Scale? . The data has been collected processed by SPSS 11,5 statistical package program.The research has been performed at two steps, essay and actual application. The pre-application has been conducted at Bayburt University students in 2009-2010 academic years. The research has been conducted on a total of 70 students. The actual application has been performed at Gazi University students in 2009-2010 academic years. The research has been conducted on a total of 377 students.The results show that there is a parallel relationship with environmental attitude and metacognitive skills to environmental problems.Key Words: Environmental problems, classroom teacher candidates, environmental attitude, metacognition.