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This is the biggest problem of universities and It should be solved as soon as possible. what is wrong with these faculty, are students worng with chosing them or are lecturer wrong whilw working for them or other else???

I think we have really problem about the role of arts&scince faculty. they are supposed to prepare students to be scientists or instructors but not teachers. however, when we look at capacity of these faculties make us think that Turkey has most crowded scientist population in the world! I think for arts&science faculty we need increase in quality but decrease in numbers of capacity.

The mission and vision of the arts and science faculties should be presented clearly to high school students or to people who are about to make a decision about a department. Unfortunately, being a university graduate is perceived like a rare feature so most of the high school graduates try to enter a university avoiding the profession and department. Also, the students who hold a BS degree of a department of arts and science faculty should have given more opportunities, like scholarships or job opportunities, so that they will be able to continue their graduate education in a arts and science faculty.

First, there should be simple changes in the classroom. Then more complex ones will be taken into consideration. What I mean is that for example most of the studies are nearly screaming that main problems of the education system, lack of teachers, lack of space which is suitable for learning, lack of classrooms. I can not say anything about their intent of refreshing the education system, but can't understand the ignorance of such physical problems. Maslow pyramid..

The system has not recognized that the curricula is not a seat that we can change constantly. They are also not aware that it is not easy to implement it with a sudden change.

Positive psychology should immediately take place in education. Without concentratig on anxiety, fear of a subject matter we as teachers should focus on enjoyment, fun related to the learning. A theory says that mind can not engage two of the issues at the same time; positive and negative issues. Negative issues are mostly make you prevent from going further with that subject matter, however positive issues do the opposite.

Sinem, I agree with you, I think that's why game-based learning, problem-based learning, anchored instruction that has elements of problem-based learning has started to gain importance in education. I did not understand the sentence "A theory says that mind can not engage two of the issues at the same time; positive and negative issues." Can you explain it please,

A funny video about the memorization issue in education. The narrator claims to make a student be graduated in 5 minutes. An exaggerated view to education. However, it is not completely wrong.

President of Institute of Humane Education give a talk. Web page of the institute: http://www.humaneeducation.org/ From their web site: Humane education includes 4 elements: Providing accurate information (so we have the knowledge to face challenges); Fostering the 3C's: curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking (so we have the tools to meet challenges); Instilling the 3R's: reverence, respect, and responsibility (so we have the motivation to confront challenges); Offering positive choices and tools for problem solving (so we will be able to solve challenges).

in another talk about humanistic education ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxvMqhxt-SI ) the speaker gave credit to this talk so I wanted to share it with you.

I have no positive attitude towards this application, children at school age always, especially in middle schools, have tendencies to criticize their friends according to their different appearance, different accents they use etc. Clothing is one of them. Now, equal opportunity for education is diminished. Children who even can not afford to pay school fee or price for textbooks may not want to come to school. What about Japanese culture.They still use uniform in schools, they are successfull. I think government tries to change the daily hot topics of Turkey.

I completely agree. I think dressing children like they are in military and having strict rules is wrong but with this new system so many new problems come up. I think -as always- this change have not been thought well.

Here is another critique on MI. Interesting insights are presented here. 

The author contrasts the MI intelligence with single intelligence and says that single intelligence is not educable, rather it is an innate capacity. As an educator, this criticism for MI is useful for me only because I remember to be critical to the theory and begin to search for weakness of it. Otherwise the authors view of single intelligence (non-educable and innate) shows me, as an educator, no direction about my teaching. So I find the Gardner's view (though it may not be a theory) more compelling than the authors view even if I agree that there are problems with Gardner's word choices. Rather than "multiple intelligence theory" he could use "practices of multiple abilities".

I also saw the rankings. However, I am not sure if the results are reliable. I did not feel anything about our progress :),

Thomson Reuters Scale was being used to determine the results.

On another list run by METU itself, URAP, METU comes 489th in 2012 listing, not URAP but for THE having so much impact on worldwide scale I'm not sure how free it is from political influence.

Olgunluk sınavı ve genel lise kapsamında branşlaşma gibi konular gerçekten yapılması gereken önemli reformlar lakin meslek liselerinin önemi ülkemizin gelişmekte olmasından dolayı hala anlaşılamamıştır. Eğitim Reformu Girişiminin çıkardığı raporları fırsat buldukça takip ederim ama "Barajın altında kalan öğrenci ise meslek liselerine yönlendirilecek. " ibaresini kavramış değilim. Hayır puanı düşüklerin yeri değildir o okullar. O okullar ben arabalarla uğraşacağım ben kuaför olmak istiyorum, marangozluk yapmak istiyorum diyen bireylerin kendini yetiştirecekleri yerlerdir. Meslek liseleri düşük puan alanların gitmek zorunda oldukları ara eleman değil nitelikli eleman yetiştiren eğitim kurumları olmalıdır.

Sinem, benim de dusuncelerimi cok guzel ifade etmissin. Ben sansli bir meslek lisesi mezunu olarak, zamanin en guzel mesleki egitimini almistim okudugum okulun bilgisayar bolumunde. Meslek liseleri kisinin kendini her anlamda gelistirebilecegi, mesleki "craft" egitimini alabilecegi ve ozellikle en etkili "yaparak ogrenme" modellerinin uygulanabilecegi ortamlar olarak gorulmeli.

Sinem, ben de meslek lisesi mezunu olarak hocama katılıyorum. Öğrencilerin ileride yapmak istedikleri mesleklerle ilgili lisede ön bilgileri edinmiş olmaları gerekiyor. Ben de lisede bilgisayar bölümündeydim, fakat o zamanki katsayı uygulamasından dolayı bilgisayar ile ilgili sadece bilgisayar öğretmenliğini seçme hakkımız vardı. Bir nevi bizim şu an savunduğumuz "kişi ön bilgileri lisede almalıdır" mantığını biraz eksik bir biçimde, kişiyi bilgisayarla ilgili tek bir bölüme yönlendirerek uyguluyorlardı. Lisede elektronik, devreler, entegreler, boolean matematiği alan kişiler tek bir bölüme yönlendirilirken, bilgisayar dünyasıyla pek haşır neşir olmayan birisi polinom fonksiyon havuz problemleri eşliğinde bilgisayar mühendisliğine kayıt yaptırabiliyordu. Meslek liselerinin bu şekilde değersizleştirilmesiyle birlikte, o okulda okuyanlar okulun ilk gününden itibaren hem kişisel hem de toplumsal baskı hissedebiliyorlardı. Fakat meslek liselerini daha kaliteli hale getirmek de maddi anlamda desteği gerektiriyor. Çünkü araçlar pahalı ve piyasa ihtiyaçlarından dolayı sürekli güncellenmeleri gerekiyor. Ayrıca son zamanlardaki bilgi sirkülasyonu meslek liselerinde okuyanlar dahil kendini yenileyebilen, piyasa ihtiyaçlarına göre kendini geliştirebilen ve değiştirebilen "yaşam boyu öğrenici" lere ihtiyaç duymaya başladı. Bu da meslek liselerinin işleyişini değiştirmeli. Sadece meslek liselerinin sunduğu belli başlı yetilere sahip, yine sadece belli başlı makineleri ya da araçları kullanmayı bilen iş gücü artık piyasaya yetmiyor, bu kişiler yaşam boyu öğreniciler olmazlarsa bir süre sonra iş gücünün dışında kalıyorlar. Bunun çözümünün ise yerelleştirilmiş meslek liselerinin kurulması, meslek liselerinin bölgenin özellikleri ve ihtiyaçları doğrultusunda planlanması, öğrencilere ise yenilikçi olma, problem çözme ve eleştirel düşünme gibi

Here, there is a research article about Problem Based Learning.

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!

This article describes instructional theory that supports post-industrial education and training systems - ones that are customized and learner-centered, in which student progress is based on learning rather than time. The article describes universal methods of instruction, situational methods, core ideas of the post-industrial paradigm of instruction, the importance of and problems with task-based instruction, a vision of an instructional theory for post-industrial education and training, and the roles that may be played by the teacher, the learner, and technology in the new paradigm. Keywords: Instructional theory, post-industrial paradigm, task-basd instruction

Is this Reigeluth's recent publication? I plan to include this in the reading list for next year. Thanks for sharing.

I saw the news on Kursat Hoca's FB profile. It is published in Magazine about Distance Education (Revista de Educación a Distancia). I like the idea of learning without time constraints. I don't know why :)

Because of the recent changes in educational system, many teachers suffer from being redundant. Some of them are also paid less than the cleaning staff!

There must be a balance between private & government schools!

Since I started my school education,I have witnessed this problem. Unfortunately it is getting worse. How come a government cannot provide satisfactory education and instruction to its people and children? How dare to push them to pay more and fulfill their own education? Turning the private courses into private schools do not change anything. And as usual, teachers and the students are worst affected from th situation.

Changing dershanes to private schools is not a solution to provide better education to society for free. The only change is that you can go to private schools with bursary or half-bursary. It means that they just moderated the money transaction. In addition, they will make teachers take exams throughout their careers which is actually not related to the conversion process. Therefore, the attempt to make dershanes extinct is a starting move that can be supported but these private schools should be converted to public schools in order to provide a high-quality education to all children for free. That is one of the most primary duties of the governments.

That must be the way our 'constructivist' educational system should be. I'm really impressed by the way they teach.

We can see a brief overview of these stages which used examples for each levels..

It is really weird to watch the reasonings and answers although we read that they are so. I was surprised once again.

Yes hatice, actually I can go on applying the theory to my cousin by hiding it from Yengem, it is unethical I know:). May be I should wait until I have my own children. I can give permission myself to apply Piaget's theory to my children, no problem:), I agree saime, in one ofthe video a little girl was shown a simple triangle and was asked to draw exactly what she saw, and she drew a different sketch and showed the corners of her triangle that was completely in different places. It was in the video that Evrim Hoca posted to Diigo, I guess.