Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.38, sa.3, ss.411-430, 2023 (ESCI)
To meet the educational needs of teachers who need and want to use technology in their classrooms, this study was created as a school-university collaboration application for the professional development of preservice teachers enrolled in the Computer Education and Instructional Technologies (CEIT) department. The study has the characteristics of an intergenerational mentoring practice since mentors and mentees include different age groups and interdisciplinary since the preservice teachers are educated in a technology-oriented department and they worked with teachers from different branches. The aim of the research is to determine the opinions and experiences of preservice teachers regarding the technological training for teachers and the microteaching processes carried out before such training. The research was designed as a case study. Online interview forms, preservice teacher diaries, group reports, microteaching observations and classroom observations were used to collect research data. In the microteaching phase of the study, preservice teachers' prepared lesson plans for the technologies they would teach teachers and conducted lectures to the instructor and their classmates. In the teacher training phase, they provided training to the teachers for the technologies they could use in their classes. After this phase, they observed teacher's classroom applications using technology. The results of the research show that applications in this study contributed to preservice teachers' field and professional knowledge, helped them to improve their effective presentation and communication skills, and to gain teaching experience and to improve their self-confidence towards the profession. For future applications, it is recommended to provide more systematic guidance to preservice teachers during the selection of technology applications and the teaching strategies to be used, and to increase the number of microteaching sessions.