Views of pre-service teachers related to the development of pedagogical formation training and design competences

Abstract

The importance of pedagogical formation training is remarkable for developing the professional competences of pre-service teachers. One of the basic functions of pedagogical formation is getting pre-service teachers have competences on teaching design through cooperative learning experiences in a social learning environment. During higher education, in-class experiences generally include socio-pedagogical learning processes fulfilled under the guidance of lecturers. The purpose of this research was to determine the views of pre-service teachers related to the development of pedagogical formation training and design competences. The research was carried out with 428 pre-service teachers who had pedagogical formation training in Erzincan University in 2016-2017 academic year. “The Scale for Pedagogical Formation Training, and Developing Design Competences of Pre-Service Teachers” was developed by the researchers. During the process of scale development, pre-implementation was administered with the participation of 83 pre-service teachers, and the scale was determined to have 2 factors. Total variance explained by the factors was 61.695%; and alpha reliability coefficient for the first factor was .923, and it was found to be .863 for the second factor. According to research findings, it was noticed that the perceptions related to the factor of “the quality of pedagogical formation training” had “high” level, and the perceptions related to the factor of “development of teaching design competences” had “medium” level performance.