Opinions of the teachers about the obligatory formatorship application and the future positions of the informatics technologies teachers: A case study in Adana

The aim of this research is to define the opinions of the Informatics Technology Formator Teachers (BITEFO) who work in the center provinces of Adana, about the obligatory formatorship application and the future positions of the Informatics Technologies (IT) teachers.The universe of the research consists of BITEFO?s who work in the Ministry of Education primary state schools in the center provinces of Adana in the 2011-2012 academic year and whose branches are Informatics Technologies. 55 of 120 IT teachers answered the questionnaire which the researcher had prepared through the web and sent.The statistical analyses of the data were done by SPSS 11.5 package programme. In the analyses of the data, the frequency and percentage of the teachers? opinions related with each item of the questionnaire, were calculated, Mann-Whitney U test was applied for identifying whether there was or wasn?t a meaningful difference according to the variables.It has been found that BITEFO?s; take the formatorship duty as a guidance about technology, help mostly to the principals and teachers, say that their working hours should be re-arranged, find the obligatory formatorship wrong, have problems because of unexpected works out of duty, do not enjoy doing this job, expect their branches to gain importance with the FATIH Project.Keywords: Formator, BITEFO, Informatics Technologies Lesson, Informatics Technologies Teacher