Examining of Preservice Teachers' Performance Preparing Lesson Plan

The aim of this study is to examine the preservice teacher' skills using teaching principles and methods. The Mixed method, which includes the Quantitative and Qualitative Dimensions, was employed. The Study Group consisted of the 224 students at a Foundation University in the 2016-2017 Academic Year. According to the results of the research, the performances of the preservice teachers in preparing the lesson plans for teaching principles and methods are medium level. The performance averages of evaluation were determined to be at low level. It was observed that the students with low performance values made more mistakes in using the teaching strategy and method concepts instead of each other; and could not explain the learning approach in their lesson plans by giving examples. It was also observed that these students acquired the concepts about teaching Principles and Methods only at knowledge level; and they had difficulties in the applications related to the use of the concepts