ED 401CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

VALUES EDUCATION

BRAVEHEARTS«We are still ALIVE»

ÜMMÜ GÜLSÜM KAŞAN

FİGEN KURT

EMİNE GÜLŞAH ERDEM

ELİF SERTDEMİR

CEMRE ATEŞÇİ

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We meet every Tuesday at 6 pm. at Hisar Cafe or Study Hall in our university.

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OBSERVATION SCHOOLS

• BOĞAZHİSAR COLLEGE

• BILTEK COLLEGE

• AÇI COLLEGE

• TED COLLEGE

• RÜŞTÜ AKIN VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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CONTENT• INTRODUCTION

• LITERATURE REVIEW

• GANTT CARD

• METHODOLOGY

• FISHBONE

• MATRIX DIAGRAM

• SURVEY RESULTS

• SUGGESTIONS/ WISHBONE

• CONCLUSION

• REFERENCES

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INTRODUCTION

• Teachers, we set up the Republic but you are the ones who will cause it to rise and make it live. Republic wants you to cultivate generations which have free mind, free conscience, free knowledge and high character. (M. Kemal Atatürk)

• Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education (Martin Luther King)

• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value (Albert Einstein)

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil ( C.S.Lewis)

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Which values come to your mind when we say values

education?

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Our problem is;

Why is not enough attention paid to values

education in Turkey?

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Why did we choose this topic?

As stated in the quotes, integration of values has a crucial

role in true education. However, we have realized that the values

education is not emphasized enough in our education system.

Therefore, we have decided to conduct our research on this topic.

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LITERATURE REVIEW

• Values Education is known internationally by a number of names, including Moral

Education, Character Education and Ethics Education. Each variant has a slightly

different meaning, pointing to one or other distinctive emphasis (Lovat & Tommy, 2009).

• According to The Values Education Study in Australia, “Values Education” refers to any

explicit and/or implicit school-based activity to promote student understanding and

knowledge of values, and to inculcate the skills and dispositions of students so they can

enact particular values as individuals and as members of the wider community (DEST,

2003:2).

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CONT’D

• The challenge for teachers is to develop principles for dealing with values-laden issues in a professional and ethical way.

• Several techniques for teaching about value-laden issues have been developed. Two important ones are values clarification and values analysis.

• Values guide our decisions as to what is good, true and right. Thus, they depend as much on our feelings as on our thoughts.

• Values analysis, on the other hand is a way of helping students examine other people’s values as well as their own. It requires the use of logical thinking skills to analyze different viewpoints about an issue. (UNESCO, Teaching and learning for a sustainable future, 2010)

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STEPS WEEKS March 4 March 11 March 18 March 25

April 3 April 8 April 17

PLAN

Identify topic

Approval

Literature review and target identification

Cause-affect analysis

Approval of the main cause

Solutions for the future

Determined solution tactic

DO Praparing Survey & Starting Data Collection

CHECK Analysis of data

ACT Conclusion & Suggestions

Preparing PPT & Report

Self-assessment

PRESENTATION

GANTT CARD

Expected

Observed

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METHODOLOGY

• We carried out a survey in our practicum

schools. We delivered our survey

questions to our mentor teachers.

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Why isn’t the necessary

importance given to values education?

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FISHBONE

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Why is not necessary importance given to values education?

Environment/ Society

• Social expectations

• Family

• Friends

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Why is not necessary importance given to values education?

School

• Teacher as a model

• Administration

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Why is not necessary importance given to values education?

System

• Exam-based education system

• Inapplicability of the curriculum

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Why is not necessary importance given to values education?

Material

• Content of teaching materials

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Society/environment

System Material School

Gülsüm 5 3 4 7

Gülşah 5 7 4 6

Elif 5 7 3 4

Figen 5 6 2 7

Cemre 6 2 7 5

Total 26 25 20 29

% 26 25 20 29

MATRIX DIAGRAM

SURVEY RESULTS

TEACHER PROFILE

• The participants of our survey were the teachers from 5 different schools.

• One of them was a state school and the others were private colleges in Istanbul.

• Out of 10 teachers, 7 of them were female and 3 of them were male.

• Their ages range from 25 to 35.

1) I think that our

school policy takes

values education into

consideration.

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2) Our school policy

cares about qualitative

achievements as much

as quantitative success.

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3)Our school policy

celebrates diversity

through curriculum

content and whole school

activities.

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4) Our school policy

gives importance to

voice of students in

decision making.

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5) Our school

collaborates with the

parents considering

values education.

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6) As a teacher, I believe

in the importance of

integrating values

education to the

curriculum.

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7) I do not have

difficulty in integrating

values education to

my subject matter.

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8) I provide an

environment that

facilitates students to

tell the truth when

discussing a situation.

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9) I believe that pair and group

work can contribute to the

application of values education

in classroom and thus I include

them in the classroom content.

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10) I appreciate and

reinforce positively

students’ behaviors

regarding values

education both in and

outside the classroom.

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SUGGESTIONS

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WISHBONE

Family education

More social responsibility projectsLess

competitive more

cooperative

Formative

rather than

summative

In-service

training for

teachers as

models

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Even more suggestions...

• The expectancy of the parents should be changed. Academic success is not

enough. Thus parent education is highly important. (Francis,2014 )

• Teacher should know more about the importance of values education.

Besides, they need to be good models for their students. (Hawks, 2010)

• In-service training can be given to teachers so that they can improve

themselves in terms of values education. (Davidson et all., 2007)

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Even more suggestions... Cont’d

• Media can be either beneficial or harmful for the children’s acquiring values.

We can use it to improve those values rather than keeping them away from

those values. ( Perse, 2001)

• To emphasis the importance of qualitative success, portfolios can be used as

an assesment. (Buckley et all., 2007)

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CONCLUSION

• As a group, we tried to touch the issue of values education; first, we identified

our problem which is the inadequacy of values education in the context of

Turkey. Then, to illuminate this point, we observed our practicum schools and

conducted a survey to our mentor teachers.

• As a result of our survey, we conclude that although there is a place for values

education in most of the educational institutions, in terms of implementation we

have found that private schools are further than the state schools. Therefore,

there is an urgent need for improvement of the values education both in state

schools and the private schools in Turkey.

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REFERENCES• Imece Circles by Dr. Hayal Köksal

• Buckley, S, et all., The educational effects of portfolios on undergraduate student learning: A Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) systematic review. BEME Guide No. 11, 2009, Vol. 31, No. 4 , Pages 282-298

• Davidson, Matthew; Lickona, Thomas; and Khmelkov, Vladimir 14 Nov 2007, ‘Smart and Good Schools: A Paradigm Shift for Character Education’, (website), Education Week, Vol. 27, Issue 12, pp 32, 40.

• Lovat, T& Toomey, R. (2007). Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect. Terrigal, N.S.W.: David Barlow Pub.

• http://www.nber.org/digest/mar06/w11494.html

• http://www.values-education.com/resources.php

• http://www.valueseducation.co.uk/articles/What-is-values-education-and-so-what.pdf

• http://www.google.com.tr/books?id=IjqRAgAAQBAJ&dq=media+effects+on+society&lr=&hl=tr&source=gbs_navlinks_s

• http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_d/mod22.html?panel=3#top

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SPECIAL THANKS TO DR. HAYAL KÖKSAL