Qualification scale for early childhood teachers

摘要

Many researchers carried out studies with regard to teacher qualifications and teacher education programmes which provide teachers with features that must have. During the development of Teacher Education Programme, generally institutional dimension have been considered and the effect of policy makers have been seen. However, because the family and society are also involved in the students? education, family?s opinions should also be considered during the development process of teacher education programmes. For this reason, in this study, the qualifications of teachers were composed according to the families? opinion, and were converted on a scale. The teacher qualifications scale was designed to have 171 items in 7 groups. These groups were named as the following basic teacher qualification components: ability in art, personal characteristics, language proficiency, quantitative ability, world knowledge and teacher qualification components in preparing the learning environment. These qualifications were based on the items in the related factor group. Cronbach alpha for internal consistency of subscales was calculated and was as follows: .97 for the first factor, .73 for the second factor, .91 for the third factor, .88 for the fourth factor, .86 for the fifth factor, .82 for the sixth factor and .83 for the seventh factor. The mean and standard deviation was calculated with the correlations which were factor points of the teacher qualifications scale. There are high positive relations between the basic qualifications factor point and the total point of scale (r 0.97, p<.001). There are .47-.77 positive and meaningful relations between other factors of the scale and the total points. Education and art factors within factor points have not been found to be meaningful relations. For the other binary combinations of factors, a positive and meaningful relation has been found.