The purpose of this study was to specify the opinions of teacher candidates who are in the department of Primary School Teaching about the course of teaching practice. Around this general purpose it was asked the opinions of teacher candidates about the evaluation of themselves, practice teachers and the instructors in terms of instructional process in teaching practice course. The sample of the study was totally 146 fourth grade teacher candidates from the department of primary school teaching. The data was obtained by means of an instrument that was developed by the researchers. The analysis of the data was actualized with percentile and frequency calculations. The most important result of the study pointed out that the teacher candidates were perceived themselves as sufficient and well in many aspects of instructional process. Similarly, it was determined that the scoring of teacher candidates as under achievers were very low by the instructors and practice teachers. According to another finding, teacher candidates found themselves as not sufficient in dealing with individual differences of the students and using mother language efficiently.
Key words: Teaching practice, teacher candidates, primary school teaching
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