The dynamism and intercultural interactions that we observe today are transforming our environment, institutions and world rapidly with the effect of information and communication technologies. Education and teaching models inevitably change in this transformation atmosphere. Traditional and established models leave their place to models that will enable students to be “individuals that learn through application/experience”. Benjamin Franklin's meaningful remark explains the content of the transformation in question: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
The İstanbul Kültür University Faculty of Education, which was established based on the principle of raising teachers that have strong subject matter knowledge, high self-confidence and motivation and an understanding of “learning/teaching through application/experience”, aims to be an institution that trains Turkey's most distinguished teachers. In the 2013-2014 Academic Year, we accepted our first candidate teachers to the undergraduate program of our Faculty. Our start with a hundred percent placement rate made us extremely proud. As a reflection of our teaching philosophy, we aim to train our teacher candidates with an applied teaching process. For this purpose, two elementary schools, one science high school and three kindergartens within the İstanbul Kültür Educational Institutions will be the natural application areas of our prospective teachers.
The Department of Elementary Education Early Childhood Education Undergraduate Program is committed to ensure the development and learning of our children in preschool institutions with a fun and educational process by creating rich learning environments. Our goal is to train qualified teachers who can contribute to preschool education practices at national and international level, lead the field and who have a reflective and critical mindset.
With our distinguished academic staff and our years of experience in the Kültür Educational Institutions, we offer you an education and training process supported with a rich field experience that places importance on observation and practice.
