Levels of the empathic tendencies of classroom teachers

The purpose of this reseach study is to investigate the empathic tendencies of classroom teachers according to some certain variables. Total field under survey is 1257 classroom teachers working in Düzce Province in 2009-2010. Samples consist of 307 classroom teachers, gathered through basic random sampling in the field under survey.Personal Information Form and Empathic Tendency Scale is used in the research. .05 statistical significance level is observed in the analysis of the data. A t-test method is applied for independent samples in order to determine whether the empathic tendencies of primary school classroom tearchers change in relation to sex, civil status, willingness to chose to become classroom teacher, satisfaction from their job. One-Way Anova analysis is applied for independent samples in order to determine whether the empathic tendencies of primary school classroom tearchers change in relation to length of service, faculty they graduated, where they live, level of their classes. Kruskall Wallis H-test is applied for independent samples in order to determine whether the empathic tendencies of primary school classroom tearchers change in relation to level of their education and the number of students they teach.Results show that sex has a statistically significant effect on the empathic tendencies of primary school classroom tearchers. The average point of female classroom teachers' empathic tendencies is observed higher than male teachers' empathic tendencies. Results show that civil status, willingness to chose to become classroom teacher, satisfaction from their job, length of service, faculty they graduated, where they live, level of their classes, level of their education and the number of students they teach have no statistically significant effect on the empathic tendencies of primary school classroom tearchers.Key Words : Empathic Tendency, Primary Education, Classroom Teacher, Profession of Classroom Teaching