Proceedings of the 1st Teaching & Education Conference, Amsterdam

TEACHERS AND PRINCIPAL COMMUNICATION IN PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION

MUSTAFA YAVUZ, SEVIL KARACA

Abstract:

Preschool education is critically important for the development of a child. Because education in this period is such that it affects the individual's future periods. The basis of personality development is discarded by pre-school education in the pre-school period. Larkin (1999), overlooking the differences in structure and size relationships between pre-school education institutions and education institutions in other steps, indicates that the hierarchy in the pre-school institutions is overall flat. From this point, he refers that the attainability to the manager in pre-school educational institutions is easier compared to theother educational institutions. In addition, students and in terms of the number of employees to be small units and to be more intense than the other education levels of the parents to the school level of communication are among the other remarkable features of this school organization. School principal, establishing of communication in school, ensuring co-manipulations and evaluating what has been done provides school to be effective and successful. School principals must use the decision mechanism to bring the school to its purposes. School principal is a person who creates and shapes a school culture fulfilling the tasks. Therefore, in this study the importance, objectives, principles and development of the pre-school education examined in details, later the relationships of the principal and the teacher in the pre-school education studied. The data in this study collected with"semi-structured interview technique" located in the interviews method which isone of the data collection methods in qualitative research and analyzed by the content analysis method. Acoorting to research Whether principals have the communication skills, they attempt to understand them and take the time to listen to them enough, pre-school education teachers consulted their ideas. Preschool education teachers consulted about whether they have faced in transferring ideas and problemsexactly to the principals,said that they are able to explain their ideas and issues generally, they have no difficulties in this regard, but they have shared it witha manager in their own branches more comfortably. Pre school teachers were forced little to criticize the principals generally, but principals take into account their views.

Keywords: Pre school, Communication, Principal, Teacher

DOI: 10.20472/TEC.2015.001.016

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