“…In the process of collecting data, the prompt "A teacher is like…, because…'' was used, which has been commonly utilized by some researchers (Karadağ & Gültekin, 2012;Mahlios & Maxson, 1998;Massengill, Mahlios, & Barry, 2005;Nalçacı & Bektaş, 2012;Nikitina & Furuoka, 2008;Saban, 2004Saban, , 2008Saban, , 2009Saban, Koçbeker, & Saban, 2007;Oxford, Tomlinson, Barcelos, Harrington, Lavine, Saleh, & Longhini, 1998;Patton, 2002b;Perry & Cooper, 2001) in the literature to inquire about perceptions of teachers. The participants were reminded to write their gender, and later to complete the given prompt using only one metaphor.…”