Yükseköğretim Dönüşümünün Eşiğinde Türkiye’de Öğretmen Yetiştirme Sorunları: Bir Model Önerisi

In today’s society, a number of factors have emerged requiring radical transformations in higher education. Foremost among these factors are the changing profiles of students and growing demands of the business world on the changing nature of professionalization and expertise. This reflects a further training need beyond gaining basic knowledge and skills, but rather integrating 21st century skills of critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, communication, creativity, decision making, innovative thinking and as such. As the places for creating scientific knowledge, universities fail to sustain effective training approaches that fulfill their graduates’ needs to be ready for real world jobs. Consequently, seeks for alternative approaches together with technological advances reveal new ways to fulfill these needs such as Massive Open Online Courses. Inevitably, teacher education programs are to be affected by these pressures as well. The literature highlights the unsolved problems of the Turkish teacher education programs such as programs heavily based on theoretical information, increasing numbers of students and inadequate numbers of teacher educators, roles and profiles of teacher educators, teacher employment, and public perception of the teaching profession. Considering the existent problems with the past problems of teacher education, this study aimed to discuss the teacher training problems of Turkey in the light of transformation demands and offer a draft model for teacher training system