Evaluating Class Teachers’ Opinions About Training Class Teachers As A First Level (1st, 2nd 3rd Grades) and As A Second Level (4th, 5th Grades) Teachers Differently

Abstract

The history of teaching profession is as old as the history of human being. Teaching profession does not involve only teaching, it also requires a teacher to go along with his personality traits, knowledge, social relationships and his life philosophy (Celep, 2004:iii). We call “class teacher” who teaches in the first level of elementary school. Class teachers have great influence on students’ academic achievement, personality and attitudes against the classes and school. So it is possible to say that the people who interact with students during the period of nursery and elementary school, especially class teachers have great rolls in shaping students’ personality and their futures (Senemoğlu 2008:3). Starting from the beginning of the last century, there have been many efforts to improve teacher education. Fist Teacher Schools, Village Institutes, Education Institutes, Schools of High Teachers and Technical High Teachers Schools were some of the important teachers institutions . All these models helped teachers to be trained with general culture, the knowledge of subject, and teaching skills and strategies.