The general qualifications of teaching profession along with 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency of prospective teachers and teacher candidates

Jury: Assistant Prof. Öğretim Üyesi Yunus Emre AVCI With this study, it is aimed to take a look at the general qualifications of teaching profession along with 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency perception levels of prospective teachers attending Siirt University and the teacher candidates working at public schools and to determine the relationship between them. 1935 grade four prospective teachers attending Siirt University Faculty of Education, Faculty of Theology and School of Physical Education and Sports in 2019-2020, 2020-2021 academic years, and 987 teacher candidates working at public schools and still being in preparatory period in academic year 2020-2021. constitutes the universe of relational server model of this study. 325 prospective teachers, chosen through stratified sampling, and 300 teacher candidates, chosen trough random sampling, from the universe form the sample of this study. According to the results of the research, prospective teachers and teacher candidates see themselves sufficient in the total scale of The General Qualifications of Teaching Profession, they see themselves more than sufficient in the fields of professional ability and attitudes and values and as for professional knowledge field they see themselves sufficient. The perception levels of prospective teachers differ according to the variations of branch, the time spared for reading, the time spared for Internet, the spared time to watch TV., attending scientific, social and artistic activity. As for scientific, social and artistic activities participation variations the perception levels of prospective teachers differ. Prospective teachers and teacher candidates are of the opinion that they have a very high level of 21. century's abilities and self-sufficiency in total scale and in subscales of 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency. In terms of time spared for reading, time spared for Internet and grade-point-average variations prospective teachers' levels of 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency differ. The levels of prospective teachers' 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency differ in terms of gender, and scientific, social and artistic activities participation variations. According to prospective teachers' perspectives there is a considerable relationship in a positive way between the levels of the general qualifications of teaching profession and the levels of 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency. According to teacher candidates' perspectives there is a moderate substantial relationship between the levels of the general qualifications of teaching profession and the levels of 21. century's abilities self-sufficiency. It is determined that the general qualifications of teaching profession and the levels of 21. Century's abilities self-sufficiency are substantial predictors for both perspective teachers and teacher candidates.