THE CHALLENGES OF TEACHING PRACTICE OF UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS STUDENTS

Abstract

A pedagogical formation education certificate program is a training program that enables the 4-th grade students of the mathematics department of the science and literature faculty to qualify for the teaching certificate required to become a teacher. The students of Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University mathematics department participates in the course that the education faculty have prepared. In this program, for the practice teaching course, the students spend 2 hours of theory at the faculty and 6 hours of practice in a high school in Niğde city center. The lecturer observes that the students who are carrying out the theoretical part of the course are deficient in the use of tools and materials, are inadequate in preparing the lesson plan, lack of mastery of the subject and lack of skills in using the board: teachers in the application notes that teacher candidates have difficulties in communication with high school students. The purpose of this study is to explain what the formation students think about difficulties encountered by them in in the practice school. It is believed that this study will help students to develop their skills on weekly basis in an activity file that will be prepared in the form of lectures, lesson planning, classroom dominance, appropriate use of equipment.

Keywords

• pedagogical formation,teacher candidates,undergraduate mathematics students

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