PRE-SCHOOL TEACHING

The Department of Preschool Education offers a four-year programme leading  to a bachelor’s degree in Preschool Education. The Bachelor’s Degree Programme is a 240 ECTS credit programme of 4 years composed of 8 semesters, each with a 30 ECTS workload. One ECTS is equal to 30 hours of student workload per semester .

The aim of the Department of Preschool Teacher Education is to train teachers who are  qualified enough to apply and cope with the demands and challenges of the contemporary scientific advances in the field of pre-school education.The undergraduate programme in Preschool Education also aims to impart knowledge and   develop skills of those who will be working in various environments with   children up to the age of 6 years.

The aim is not simply to train preschool   teachers but also to educate competent professionals who will be working with   the families of young children, with the social institutions related to health   and education, and with the community to promote community development. The   programme combines theoretical training and field experience and offers a vision   based on current research.

Graduates can easily be employed by the Preschools of State and Private Schools. They can also work for the preschool sections of rehabilitation centers for the  handicapped children and carry out graduate and postgraduate studies in universities.

The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Expression
• Question-Answer
• Discussion
• Exercise and Practice
• Presentation
• Guided Practice
• Role Playing
• Group Study
• Simulation
• Brain Storming
• Six Hat
• Case Study
• Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
• Self study
• Problem Solving
• Project Based Learning (Including Field Work)

The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
• Oral Exam
• Homework
• Project / Design
• Portfolio
• Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis)

PRESCHOOL TEACHING is a Bachelor's Degree Programme with 240 ECTS Credits meets the minimum level (cycle) requirements, in terms of ECTS Credits and level descriptors, of the first cycle degree qualifications of the Overarching Framework of European Qualifications Framework of HE(QF-EHEA) as well as the 6th levels of qualifications of the both the Turkish Qualifications Framework for HE (TYYÇ, NQF-HETR) and the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL) in terms of the later.

Students, upon successfully completing this study programme is awarded the qualification of BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PRESCHOOL TEACHING.

Admission of national students to the ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING programme is allowed through the nationally centralised Student Selection Examination (ÖSS) conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Centre (OSYM). For further information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution and The Student Selection & Placement Centre (OSYM).

Admission of foreign students to the programme can be done upon an evaluation of the application of students directiy to the university. For further and detailed information please visit General Admission Requirements and Registration Procedures in the menu items of the Information on the Institution.

The degree is awarded to students who successfully completes a minimum of 240 ECTS from the course units of the programme with a  grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.00 out of 4.00.

Procedures to recognise prior learning (RPL), including non-formal and informal learning, is in an early stage of development in Turkey and there is no a comprehensive and enabling legislative framework at the national level in place yet. However, within the institutional autonomy respected there are some implementations at the institutional level for allocating credits towards exemption from some programme requirements on the basis of RPL. This is particularly a wide spread exercise implemented in cases that students, having a certain level of knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to fields such as foreign languages and computer use, prior to admission to the university, are subjected to an examination and if they are found successful to a certain degree required by the programme they have been admitted to, they are exempted from the relevant course units of the course programme. RPL is also practiced for students who wish to transfer their studies to the equal or an upper levels at an another institution including those from abroad in the same or similar fields. In such cases, students, having received some course units in a previous programme they had studied and having been successful, may be  exempted from the same or similar course units of the programmes they are admitted to upon the approval the adaptation committees of the programmes.

Such procedures of recognition are also used comprehensively in practice at our university. The general arrangements for the recognition ofsuch implementations are outlined in the relevant section of our Education and Examination Regulations, Rules & Regulations for Graduate Programmes and that of Regulations for Lateral Transfer of Students.

Graduates can easily be employed by the Pre-Schools of State and Private Schools.They can work for the pre school sections of rehabilitation centers for handicapped children.They can also carry out graduate and post graduate studies.

The students graduating from this program may apply to second cycle programs.