COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EBE 6023 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Institute Of Education Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET ŞAHIN

Offered to

History Teacher Education
Educational Administration and Supervision
Geography Teacher Education
Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
Chemistry Teacher Education
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION
Primary Teacher Education
PAINTING-CRAFTS TEACHER EDUCATION
Social Studies Teacher Education
Curriculum and Instruction
English Language Teacher Education
Music Teacher Education
Guidance and Psychological Counseling
Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Education
Mathematics Teacher Education
Science Teacher Education
Biology Teacher Education
Physics Teacher Education
TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Course Objective

To help teachers become lifelong learners and to help teachers become individual learners which are significant for teacher aptitude criteria accepted by the Ministry of National Education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To help pre-service and in-service teachers gain skills, abilities, knowledge, values, and attitudes required for professional teaching.
2   To acquaint teachers with the opportunities for professional development.
3   To teach the school-based professional development model.
4   To help teachers develop their own individual professional development model.
5   To help teachers implement and evaluate individual professional development models.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course introduction
2 What is professional development Why is it necessary
3 Sample literature about professional development of teachers
4 Analyzing and criticizing literature about professional development of teachers
5 Determining professional development needs of pre-service and in-service teachers
6 Determining professional development needs of pre-service and in-service teachers-use of surveys and MEB materials
7 Investigating and assessing professional development methods and opportunities for pre-service and in-service teachers
8 Midterm Exam
9 School-Based professional development model (SBPD)
10 School-Based professional development model (SBPD)-development of a sample model
11 School-Based professional development model (SBPD)-development of a sample model
12 School-Based professional development model (SBPD)-development of a sample model-Application
13 School-Based professional development model (SBPD)-development of a sample model-Application-Evaluation
14 School-Based professional development model (SBPD)-sample model final report presentation
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

- Research linking teacher preparation and student performance / edited by Edith M. Guyton and Julie Rainer Dangel. Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt, c2004. Buca Faculty of Education Library.
- The professional development of teachers [electronic resource] : practice and theory / by Philip Adey ; with Gwen Hewitt, John Hewitt and Nicolette Landau. Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2004.
- Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Öğretmen Yeterlikleri Kitapları
- Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Okul Temelli Mesleki Gelişim Kılavuzu
- Related literature

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Research, Lecture, Discussion, Question-Answer, Group Work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Quality participation in online discussions, end-of-semester final ARP and ppt presentation

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mehmet.sahince@gmail.com

Office Hours

Weekdays working hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 2 10 20
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 129

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555

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