A Study of instructors’ educational background who are instructing special education teachers in teaching practice course

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine instructors' education on special education area who isresponsible for teacher practice courses in special education departments. In this study, the description ofsituation was made by using the document analysis method which is among the qualitative researchmethods. The data collection process of the research was carried out in 2018. the web pages of theseuniversities chairperson of special education departments have been reached. Research questions areshared with chairpersons of the departments via e-mail or phone. Chairpersons who give consent andwilling to participate in this research answer the questions. According to their answers, results wereanalyzed as numbers and percentages. It was seen that 1669 students graduated from special educationteacher and 224 group is opened for teaching practice course. According to this, in most of the specialeducation departments, it is seen that the instructors who did not take this course carry out the course.Looking at the overall results of the study, many of the special education teachers trained in Turkey seemsto get their education from universities which established without sufficient staff trained in area.