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The aim of this research is to identify perceived efficacy of a group of preservice teachers regarding selection of teaching methods and techniques. It seems important for preservice teachers to benefit from teaching methods and techniques in terms of learning processes in different subjects as they practice their profession. As this is a descriptive study, the survey model was used. Data were collected with Preservice Teachers' Perceived Self-Efficacy in Selection of Teaching Methods and Techniques Scale, developed by Durdukoca et al. (2017). The study sample comprised of 321 fourth-year students in departments of Primary Teacher Education, Turkish Teacher Education, Social Sciences Teacher Education and Preschool Teacher Education in Buca Faculty of Education at Dokuz Eylül University during Spring Semester of the academic year of 2017-2018. Obtained data were analyzed with SPSS 22, ANOVA and t-test. Data analysis showed that the preservice teachers had high perceived self-efficacy in selection of teaching methods and techniques and that there was a significant difference between the participants from different departments.

I S S N : 1 3 0 8 -7 1 7 7 C i l t / V o l u me : 3 2 0 1 4 -3 S a y ı / I s s u e : 2 K ı ş / Wi n t e r 2 0 1 4 U l u s l a r a r a s ı H a k e m l i D e r g i I n t e r n a t i o n a l R e f e r e e d J o u r n a l Çalışmada elde edilen bulgulara göre; öğretmen adaylarının durumluk ve sürekli kaygı düzeyleri medeni durumları ve akademik başarıları açısından anlamlı olarak farklılaşmamıştır. İkinci öğretimde eğitim görmekte olanların durumluk kaygı düzeyleri gündüz eğitim görenlere göre anlamlı derecede farklıdır. Ayrıca kadın öğretmen adaylarının sürekli kaygı düzeyleri de erkek adaylara göre anlamlı farklılıklar göstermiştir. Açık uçlu sorunun analizinde ise öğretmen adaylarının iş bulamama, atanamama, KPSS'de başarılı olamama ve aile-çevre beklentileri konusunda kaygı duydukları ortaya konulmuştur. Abstract: Anxiety is among the people that are important for mood. It is a well-known fact that; studying at the University and for self-realization, who want to develop their selves, teacher candidates may have different anxieties. For these reasons in the research the class teacher candidates' situational and continuous anxiety levels will be determined. In this study field scanning model was used. University researchers are working determined as the universe and 4th year students (234 people) has created the sample. In this study, to students, Öner and Le Compte (1983) adopted by the Situational and Continuous Anxiety scales were applied. According to the results obtained from the students; situational and continuous anxiety levels of candidate teachers on the marital status and academic achievement did not create a significant difference. Studying in evening period of day had created a significant difference in the situational anxiety levels of the candidates. In addition, situational anxiety level of women teachers also showed significant differences compared to male candidates. The analysis of open-ended question asked to the teacher candidates' pointed that; inability to find work, inability to be assigned, Inability to be successful in the KPSS and expectations of family-environment revealed their anxiety. Sınıf Fen ve Teknoloji Öğretim Programı Canlılar Dünyasını Gezelim Tanıyalım Ünitesinin Sağlamlığının İncelenmesi Examining the Adequacy of the Lesson Unit of Let's Learn about the World of Biology in the Elementary School Fifth-Grade Course of Science and Technology

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The main aim of this study is to present pre-service teachers' views on the ecology and environmental education, human brain and genetics, health and sexual education. The presented paper in here is a follow-up study of European Commission supported project titled Biohead-Citizen which included 26 partners. The Biohead-Citizen project aims to understand how Biology, Health and Environmental Education can promote a better citizenship, including their affective and social dimensions, analyzing possible differences in 26 countries and associating them to controlled parameters, (e.g. social context, religion, gender). The questionnaire developed in the context of Biohead-Citizen project was used as main data collection tool in the study. A pilot study was conducted for reliability issues, implementing the questionnaire to 133 pre-service science teachers. The final version of translated questionnaire was administered to the 210 pre-service teachers who are at the last grade of their education at the faculty of education in Turkey. The findings of this study showed that pre-service teachers particularly give importance to items in the health and sexual education: "families should be responsible for the health education"; "the health education at the school improves students' behavior", "schools have to take into account public health policies". Regarding human brain and genetics, the participants quite agree that "women can be as intelligent as men"; "identical twins have identical immune responses to transplants from one other person" and they strongly disagree that "ethnics groups are genetically different and that is why some are superior to others". They also indicated their ecology and environmental education views and most of them strongly agree that "we must aside to protect endangered species", "the main goal of environmental education in school should be developing behavior that is respectful". In the study, there are no significant differences in the mean scores for males and females, and according to the participants' childhood living place, father-mother education level, and their branches. The further findings and conclusions are presented with literature reviews.