Teacher Candidates and Teachers’ Opinions on Personalized Teaching

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Volume 13 Issue 6

Global Journal of Human-Social Science

Personalized teaching materials are the materials created by using the names of people, experiences and objects (a friend’s name, mother’s name, favorite team, and favorite objects’ names) in presentations, examples, exercises & practices and exams. There are studies in field literature that present positive and negative findings about the effects of these materials to teaching and learning. In this study, personalization preferences of information technologies teacher candidates who were trained about the preparation and application of personalized teaching materials were examined. In addition to these teacher candidates, 22 teachers’ positive and negative opinions on the teaching where personalized materials were used and their suggestions about the improvement of personalized teaching were examined. The data required for the study conducted in 2011- 2012 education years was obtained through a semi-structured form, which was applied to teacher and teacher candidates. Obtained data was collected under three main groups.