Okul Öncesi Öğretmenliği Lisans Diploması

Explain the aims, structure and functioning of Turkish education system, classroom management approaches and the concepts related to education.Acquire knowledge and high-level skills about the concepts related to teaching profession, culture, basic science, theory and practice.Get the knowledge on children  cognitive, psycho-social, psychological, and physical properties in preschool period.Recognize human development, learning and guidance process and define the relationship between these processes and student s development.Know the general properties of parents having children in preschool period and their needs in health and nutrition.Use modern scientific methods and techniques for preschool education practice. Acquire knowledge and high level skills about fundamental science, information technology, materials and other academic resources.Recognize the children  adequacy in music, art, sports and dance and prepare the proper circumstances for them.Know the different basic sciences such as science, mathematics that support the pre-school education.Get the basic information on statistics, measurement, evaluation, and technology in order to conduct scientific research in preschool education.Have a sufficient foreign language to follow the latest developments in the field and communicate.Have interdisciplinary initiative and team work spirit and creativity skills, and develop the abilities for autonomy, creative thinking, and taking responsibility in group works.Solve problems about complicated situations about teaching profession by taking responsibilityCharacterize, model, and solve national and international problems of education.Monitor her/his own personal and professional development and will constantly and seek to improve themselves to reach their personal objectives.Monitor the developments in the field and communicate with peers by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level.Have cultural education compatible with social environment and education level.Interpret social, economic, political and ideological conditions which have caused Turkish revolution in accordance with Ataturk’s principles and reforms, embrace the society they live in, and adopt human ideals including love of home country, and national goals and aspirations.Defines basic grammar rules of Turkish and a foreign language, attains basic English language skills.Recognize the preschool institutions and their properties, have the appropriate properties of preschool teachers regarding Atatürk’s principles and revolutions.Acquire practice skills and knowledge about new technologies, quality studies and attend in-service training.Prepare necessary registration, documents and reports in preschool education process.Take measures about environment, health and work security in preschool education process.Acquire knowledge and high level skills about fundamental science, information technology, materials and other academic resources.

For each course, the format of assessment and evaluation is defined in detail in “Course Teaching Plan”.To succesfully complete all courses available in program (total of 240 ECTS), students should obtain at least 2.0 weighed GPA out of 4.00.

Students must comply with the legal and academic requirements to access the studies at Mersin University according to the process established by the ÖSYM (Higher Education Council Student Selection and Placement Centre) regulations.

Graduates of this department are appointed by the Ministry of National Education as an EARLY CHILDHOOD teacher on condition that they get the required score in Public Personnel Selection Examination (KPSS), and teach at universities, private schools or other private teaching institutions.

Qualification is continuous