Teacher's Views on Prospective Teacher Training Process Applied First Time in Turkey

The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers’ opinions about teacher candidate training process which was implemented for the first time in Turkey. This study was carried out with 21 teacher candidates who participated in teacher candidate training process in Erzurum. Case study was used in the study. Six open-ended questions developed by the researcher were used in the study to reveal the opinions of teacher candidates who participated in the investigation about the process. The data obtained at the end of the study were analysed via content analysis and suitable codes, categories, and themes were generated for each question. It was revealed in the study that there were teachers who evaluated this process both positively and negatively and the teacher candidates mostly achieved the desired learning outcomes about such topics as method and techniques, evaluation and assessment, and in-class student-teacher interaction. It was suggested at the end of the study that the defects stated by the partners about the teacher candidate training process should be revised and corrected