Group items tagged

You will find all authors and their related work that criticizes MI theory. One notable and recent critique that Turkish academicians made: DECIPHERING THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._2_No._11_[Special_Issue-June_2011]/32.pdf

Agreed! But I posted this for us to see and be aware of some people in Turkish Education. Thanks for your time and comment.

For the first time I see that a scientific theory is tried to be challenged by a divine source rather than a scientific source. In my opinion, scientific debates should rely on scientific data and reasoning. Since divine sources describe an eternal truth, such sources make scientific debates and progress meaningless. In that sense, I think that this article's applicability and validity is open to discussion. Thank you Dinçer, it was one of the most interesting articles that I have run across so far.

An article on Turkish National Eduactional Ideology

thank you for sharing this source

Bilge, thank you for the post. It was an interesting topic. I will consider to have the book. In Turkey, after military coup on September the 12th in 1980, the military government introduced some important changes about religious education. Before military government period, schools had offered Religion Lesson as elective and Moral Knowledge Lesson as compulsory. The military government combined the two lessons and decided to be taught in primary and secondary schools compulsorily. However, as it is mentioned in the article, this decision leaded to an Islamization of our education. In my opinion, religious education is important. However, instead of emphasizing only one religion, students should be made aware of other religions and cultures and be tolerant to all of them. They should be thought that having a different religion is not a dangerous phenomenon. Such thoughts have been more and more important after 11th September attack to World Trade Center in the USA.

This is another film about education. In this Turkish film, a western teacher goes to an eastern (kurdish) village to teach 1,2,3,4,5th grades together. It will surely provoke you to think about education in Turkey as well as daily lives of eastern people.

I have watched this film and I was really influenced, Thank your giving it as an example for us.

I also watched the movie couple times. Very touching and forces us to think about the current situation that teachers face in Eastern part of Turkey. Thanks for sharing.

We need to have something like this for Turkish Edu Scholars.

I wanted to share a very useful video website we can use in our classrooms. Very simple, colourful and enyoyable videos are found to use with students.

Canan, my students used this in their own classrooms in the US. Great resource. Thanks for sharing.

Canan, thanks for sharing. Recently I have been roaming on EBA (eğitim bilişim ağı) web site for FATİH project, and I realized that we really need such platforms with Turkish language. Also you can have a short look at what they are doing for FATİH project. I will post the link.

Derste bahsettiğim fatih projesi ve teknoloji entegrasyonu hakkındaki haber.

Yazar: CHP Parti Meclis Üyesi, 22. Ve 23. Dönem Milletvekili Prof. Dr. Osman Coşkunoğlu (07.02.2012/ Cumhuriyet)

The link to the pool that has been prepared for technology based educational materials for FATİH project. In this pool, teachers and students can send several educational materials that they created or they were using in classroom environment. They aim to extend the content with contributions of people who are actively in education in Turkey. However, it is obvious that the project needs professional e-content materials. Videos, pdf's are ok but multimedia based tools are needed.

Erdem, I wonder if there is any section on the website that include resources/guidelines for teachers. E.g. how to integrate those simulations in the classrooms.

Canan, I hope it will help, thank you, Hocam, there are just materials in the pool. I downloaded 10th grade math teacher guidelines released by Ministry of Education and started to read some sections. I saw that they offer recommendations like "using a dynamic math software, students do...". However, I don't know if they will handle the learning and usage of such software in in-service trainings. I wish I could bring more information about the system but they have not answered my CV and my sample work yet,

This is a lesson plan I prepared during my last year of college while I was taking school experience course and attending a public school as an intern. My proffessor Jale Çakıroğlu also liked this lesson plan very much and published it in her book named "Bilimin Doğası ve Öğretimi". Moreover, I also implemented it this semester with preservice teachers at METU. I took activity from http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/gr.fs.fd.html and adapted it into Turkish. I also made some changes to make it more appropriate for 6th graders. In this activity, students are active all the time. The teacher only provides them the required materials and answer their quesions to guide them. The students work in small groups to learn the nature of science aspects with an acitivity where they act as they are scientists. The evaluation is process based not product based and this is clearly explained to the students. Since I prepared this lesson plan, actually implemented it and saw that it worked perfectly I would not change anything, but I always welcome your suggestions. :))

Gamze, thanks for sharing the lesson plan. This is an exemplary lesson plan and let's talk about it in class.

Çoklu Zeka Kuramı; zekanın tek bir boyutta olmadığını, aksine her bireyin farklı derecelerde, çeşitli zekalara sahip olduğunu öne sürmektedir (Gardner, 1993a, 1993b; Armstrong, 2000; Campbell & Campbell, 1999; Baş, 2009). Bireylerdeki bu zekaları ortaya çıkarabilecek olan kurum ise "okul"dur. Ancak, okulda bireylerin bu zekalarının ortaya çıkarılmasında bir takım sorunlarla karşılaşılmaktadır.

Friends, you can also find a word attachment article on mulitple intelligence on Turkish education by the instructor from Osman Gazi University. http://www.google.com.tr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Faof20.anadolu.edu.tr%2Fbildiriler%2FBahaddin_Acat.doc&ei=SLbEUPxukd2yBqfEgfAP&usg=AFQjCNFtt27HLEJxy4iw5QGIbLi36VqsZQ&sig2=avb5EU37rNXbuYWGcW1Jtg

The author tries to give the state-of-art of Education in Turkey while stating some theories of education.

Educators, instructors,teachers are force being passive to actively enroll in education system of Turkey. Sometimes I think that there is no any other option than writing your thoughts. Doing, implementing, creating, producing sth are not your actions any more, or am I so pessimistic lately?

Bugün Cermodern sohbetimizde konusu geçen model.

Kampüsün bir kısmı orada olacak. Spor tesisleri mesela

Ben de daha önce Sabancı'da bu formatın olduğunu biliyordum. Doğru kişilerce uygulandığında nasıl bir fark yaratabileceğinin örneği zaten mevcut.

This is an international study like PISA. Turkey is still under the average among appr. 50 countries.

I am not totally sure about annually students school leaving rates (from elementary school to secondary school) but thousands of students (esp. girls) left their schools, unfortunately.

Sinem, this is such an important number and a big problem in Turkey. Now, researchers are trying to identify the reasons for dropout and taking measures to prevent that happening in other countries. Yet, this is such an under-researched area in Turkey.

on a report published in 2011, I remember reading a statement that goes like 40 - 45 of 15 year-olds do not go to school regularly in Turkey! I hadn't expected such a percentage!

Turkish educational system is becoming more and more technological and innovative