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Asia-Pacific Forum
on Science Learning and Teaching. Volume 10, Issue 2, Article 13 (Dec., 2009) |
Turkish in-service teachers should be guided to identify and understand their traits through workshops and in-services trainings. Next, research about teaching characteristics should be done via the self-reported data and observation of what teachers doing to eliminate bias. Moreover, the government’s next duty is to modify the teacher training programs at the university level. Academicians should examine their own teaching skills so that a frank discussion with their students can lead to appraisal of useful and constraining characteristics. Academicians and students should analyze characteristics expressed in a variety of activities including, small group discussions, problem solving dialogue, lesson plan assessment, etc. In every course students and the teacher should have opportunities to examine attitudes and beliefs about subject matter in order to become reflection of habit of mind. After all these changes, Turkish education reform would succeed within a few years.
