FROM STUDENT DESK TO TEACHER'S TABLE

Abstract

This study describes a project at Fatih University where graduate research assistants and faculty cooperate in developing teaching vocation in Sociology department. The model of a microteaching workshop has been conducted for this objective. The professor and two research assistants have worked as a group. In the class, they take turns and each is responsible for teaching a class, while the other two observe and analyze the teaching act. The observers use a three-column observation sheet. In this observation sheet in the first column, the observers list the content of the teaching act; in the second one, they note down the tactic used by the teacher for the teaching act; and the third column is used to take notes about the observers’ comments on and questions related to each teaching acts. After each class, the three meet to discuss and analyze the teaching strategies used in the class and their effectiveness. Through this model, the professor and the graduate students serve both as teaching models and as teaching analysts and also they take both the role of a teacher and a student.

Key words: microteaching, sociology, teaching models, future faculty.

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