The examination of the satisfaction and attitudes of teachers working in different preschool education center

The purpose of this study is to examine the job satisfaction and attitudes of teachers who work in different Preschool Education Centers. The sampling of the study was 300 teachers working in public preschool education centers and private preschool education centers. Data was collected by ?personal information form?, ?preschool teacher attitudes scale? and ?job satisfaction scale?. Data was interpreted with SPSS 12 Packaged software. Because of abnormal dispersion of data, Kruskall-Wallis H test was used in three or more groups? comparisons and Mann-Whitney U test was used in two groups? comparisons. Besides this, the relationships among the variables were tested with the correlation analysis. 0,05 was used as meaningfulness level and it is stated that there occurs significant differences in the event of p<0,05, and there occurs no significant differences in the event of p>0,05.By the results of research, it is defined that according to some variables, there occurs significant differences in the sub-dimensions of job satisfaction scale and teacher attitudes scale from the aspects of academicals level, age, years of experience, in-school working time, the number students in the school and the ages of those students. From the aspect of institution type, it is defined that the satisfaction level of teachers working in private day care centers is higher than others. Again it is stated that teacher among 18-25 years old and teachers who have experiences of 1-10 years have higher levels of satisfaction.It is determined that according to some variables, there occurs some statistically significant differences in teacher attitudes scale sub dimensions from the aspects of institution type, years of experience, the number of children, the ages and number of students in the school, in-school working time. It is appeared that the teachers working in private day care centers have higher democratic attitude scores and teachers who have 1-10 years of experiences have higher democratic attitude scores. Besides these, it is determined that most of the teachers who attended the research have democratic teacher attitude.When the relationship between job satisfaction scale and teacher attitudes scale is examined it is determined that there occurs a positive relationship from the aspects of institution type, academicals level, age and experience. From the results, it is understood that the higher job satisfaction score the teacher has, the higher democratic scores he or she has.