Öğretmenlik Uygulamalarındaki İkilem Durumları: Aday Öğretmenler Neler Yansıtıyor?

Öğretme ve öğrenme süreçleri hakkında yeni anlayışların ortaya çıkacağı düşünüldüğü için, öğretmen adaylarının ders kapsamında öğretmenlik uygulaması sürecinde deneyimlediği ikilemler üzerine yansıtıcı düşünmeleri önerilmektedir. Bu çalışmanın çıkış noktası, aday öğretmenlere İngilizce öğretiminde yaşadıkları kendi ikilemlerinin farkına varmalarına ve bunları açıkça ortaya koymalarına yardım edebilmektir. Bu yol izlenerek, aday öğretmenlerin kendi düşünme sistemleri üzerine kuramsal bakış açılı değerlendirmeler yapmaya ve yansıtıcı sorgulamalar yürütmeye yönlendirileceği düşünülmüştür. Nitel yaklaşımı benimseyen bu çalışma, Türkiye’de öğretmenlik uygulaması dersini alan aday öğretmenlerin uygulama okullarında örnek derslerini tamamladıktan hemen sonra öğretim sürecinde yaşadıkları ikilemler üzerine ne düşündüklerini ortaya koymakta ve yorumlamaktadır.  Aday öğretmenlerin yaşamış oldukları öğretme süreci ikilemleri, bir dersin üç boyutu olan planlama, yürütme ve yönetme boyutlarında yaşanan ikilemlerdir. Çalışmanın bulguları, bütüncül olarak, aday öğretmenlerin bir öğretme süreci içerisindeki çelişen düşüncelerini, değerlerini veya beklentilerini ve de bu ikilem durumlarında uygulamaya koydukları kararları nelerin yönlendirdiğini içermektedir. 

Dilemma Situations in Teaching Practice: What Do Student Teachers Reflect?

It has been suggested that if student teachers formally reflect on teaching dilemmas they confront, it may be possible for them to uncover new understandings of the teaching and learning process. The starting point of this study is to help student teachers be aware of their own conflicts in teaching English and talk about them explicitly, which is thought to lead them to make theory-informed evaluation of their ways of thinking and to stimulate the habit of reflective inquiry. Employing the qualitative approach, this paper outlines and interprets how student teachers in a practicum course in Turkey reflected on their teaching dilemmas just after they completed their teaching practice in their practice schools. The dilemmas student teachers reflected on were on three dimensions of a lesson: planning, managing, and conducting the lesson. The interpretations included conflicting thoughts, values, or expectations of student teachers throughout the teaching process as a whole; and the issues that guided them in deciding on their courses of action.   

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