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International Teacher Education Conference 2014
A good teaching aims to teach the students how to learn, how to remember, how to think and how to get
students motivated.
Learning style is defined as environmental and factual choices which affect the individual’s entire physical
and emotional needs that students make throughout the learning process. Every student has different learning
and processing of the information styles. Learning style is the best way that students learn. Learning styles are
divided as visual (Seeing and reading, reading oneself, colorful figures-charts-graphics, visual technology, show
and make ), auditory( hearing, listening, discussing, interactive class) and kinesthesia [with entire body](physical
contact, experimental learning, dramatize, making a project) (Demirel,2006).
Discovering the learning styles showed us, most students considered “lazy”, have solely lack of learning
styles because of ignoring them. That makes teachers to uncover those styles with various technics. According to
researches, teachers have knowledge of a few technics which are not enough (Davidson et.al.1982, Jones et.al.
1987). Teachers must be competent about teaching technics and must have different technics in their class.
Learning process has to be led by teacher considering learning psychology and pedagogy to make a change in
behavior of the student. Therefore, teachers must have pedagogical formation.
Methods and Procedures
Pedagogy means, the study of teaching methods and activities. Also, formation means the way to form
something. In that way, pedagogical formation can be considered as the formation which has to be possessed for
teaching. In other word, education of the pedagogical formation which is required to become a teacher can also
be considered as appropriate way to use teaching methods of any discipline.
In engineering education, instructors generally use speech, presentation with computer, problem solving and
question – answer. On the other hand during the teaching time, instructors should take account the time
planning, speaking speed, auxiliary document, time – content relation and appearance of the instructor etc. All
these things said here have influence on the learning quality of students. For example while making presentation
with computer, one instructor should be careful with below points:
• must read by one by,
• speech speed level must be low,
• each reflection must be in proper scale,
• every time must be done a connection with previous lecture,
• must put an “s” between words,
• must explain the aim of the course clearly,
• must refer to letter course.
As seen above, while giving a lecture to the students, there are a lot of rules that an instructor should follow.
In order to give these rules to the teachers, there is pedagogical formation training in faculty of education. But
engineering teachers do not follow this type of training. If they can follow this type of training, quality of
engineering education will surprisingly increase.
In Turkey, pedagogical formation training is given by the faculties of education. Any one graduated from an
university can also take pedagogical formation training if he wants to work as a teacher in minister of national
education. An instructor who works as a teacher in universities should not take a training in pedagogical
formation. This difference affects the quality of engineering education. Instructors who teach in the universities
should have pedagogical formation to make an effective education ambiance, to have various repertories of
engineering education strategies and methods.
Teaching methods have been found very effective in developing a set of desirable soft skills in the student
(Nabhani N. 2010). Nabhani (2010) also says that “We must give students an opportunity to make use of their
acquired knowledge. Students will benefit from new teaching strategies thus improving their employment
prospects and career opportunities”.
Lectures (Turkish Council of Higher Education –YOK, Pedagogic Formation Directive,2013) for the
education of the pedagogical formation are:
• Introduction to Educational Science (2-0-2)
• Measurement and Evaluation (2-0-2)
• Theories and Approaches for Teaching and Learning (2-0-2)
• Psychology of evolution (2-0-2)
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