Teachers' rooms are essential units of educational environments, which are the places where teachers communicate, mentally, and physically rest, prepare, and evaluate courses, meeting, and spend qualified time. Features of this environment may affect teachers' professional attitudes and their relations with students, colleagues, and parents. Teacher rooms are also important for the courses of teaching practice, which are parts of teacher training programs. During this course, teachers' rooms also provide a special educational environment. The perceptions about this place compose the first occupational impression of teacher candidates. The assumption of this study is that identification and discussion of these impressions contribute to the efficiency of educational spaces and educational processes. The research was conducted with the qualitative approachcase study pattern and using "Teachers Room Observation Forms" by teacher candidates who were enrolled in information programs in the Faculty of Education. The obtained data were analyzed by the content analysis technique. The results of the study emphasize that the structuralphysical and material conditions of teacher rooms are important, but the visual-communicative conditions that give spatial character to the field are perceived more. Based on these results, the research aims to raise awareness about the current situation of teacher rooms and develop progressive recommendations.

Teachers' rooms are important parts of educational environments, as the quality of the physical-spatial and psychosocial conditions may affect the personal and occupational developments of teachers as well as the education processes. In Study 1 (n = 245), a Teachers' Rooms-Environmental Assessment Scale (TREAS) measure of the current conditions of teachers' rooms and the determination of the teachers' opinions on such conditions was developed and the initial validity evidence is presented. In Study 2 (n = 443) a confirmatory factor analyses showed support for the scale's two-factor approach. The scale factor conclusions were that the first factor should be labelled 'communication'; the second factor labelled 'physical environment' as sub-scales. The internal consistency reliability was .95. The corrected item-total correlations ranged from .49 to .81. All studies of the analysis indicated that TREAS was a valid and reliable measurement for the teacher sample.

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The study aims to answer the question: "Is it possible to benefit from education-themed films in teacher training policy?" For this purpose, students of the Faculty of Education were placed in film viewing/interpreting groups and were asked to determine the meanings conveyed in the following films: "Hababam Sınıfı," "Sınav," "Elephant," and "Dead Poets Society." The findings obtained through content analysis were themed. Results showed that catchy/effective scenes and cues were grouped under the following main themes: Education, family, society, and adolescence. The most intensely-perceived main theme was the messages on the education system. The fact that education took first place and that this was followed by adolescence, society, and family-themed messages shows that the education phenomenon should be discussed with respect to these concepts.

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