Proceedings of the 1st Teaching & Education Conference, Amsterdam

EFFECTIVE TEACHER BEHAVIORS BASED ON THE OPINIONS OF TEACHER CANDIDATES

ATILA YILDIRIM, ALI ÜNAL, ABDULLAH SÜRÜCÜ

Abstract:

Teacher is the most important factor in making education/instruction activities to reach their purpose and having expected changes in students’ behaviors. Teacher behaviors are seen to be important in the definitions of effective teachers who try to make their students effectively and efficiently make their students reach the goals. Similar effective teacher behaviors have been determined in many researches. The common point of these researches is that their self-confidence and success mainly depend on behaviors with respect to helping their students. When effective teacher behaviors are examined, behaviors of establishing warm and sincere relationships with the students and showing close interest in students mainly gain importance. The purpose of this research is to determine effective teacher behaviors based on the opinions of the teacher candidates. A teacher should know what effective teacher behaviors are and try to apply these behaviors in the best manner. It is supposed that research results will be useful in gaining teacher behaviors in teacher raising programs and making teachers at school to become aware in terms of effective teacher behaviors, and use these behaviors in using the learning-teaching process. The research is in the qualitative research model. The study group of the research consists of 132 teacher candidates who receive teaching training at Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet Keleşoğlu Education Faculty. These candidates were requested to write “the positive behavior of a teacher that influences you the most”. As a result of the contents made on the data, effective teacher behaviors were examined by classifiying in three main themes and them dividing in sub-dimensions namely behaviors motivating students, behaviors to make students successful, behaviors for the professional qualifications.

Keywords: : Effective teacher behavior, teacher candidate, classroom management

DOI: 10.20472/TEC.2015.001.017

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