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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1043598 Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 EVALUATION OF TEACHERS' OPINIONS RELATING IMPROVING QUALIFICATION IN TEACHING PROCESSi Fevzi Dursunii Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Turkey Abstract: Improving quality and providing permanent learning in the teaching process undoubtedly depend on the time that teacher spends and active and voluntary participation of students. This study is important for providing perspectives about new techniques and suggestions to the teachers and related persons by determining actions and thoughts of teachers relating teaching process. Aim of the research is to determine teachers’ actions for increasing the quality of teaching process. The research was carried out by using screening model to determine the actions of subject-matter teacher, working in Tokat province, for increasing the quality in teaching. 50 primary and middle school teachers attended to the research, working in Tokat central district and filling out the form voluntarily in interview. 12 open-ended questions weren’t evaluated due to several missing information. Convenience sampling method was used in the research, one of the qualitative research techniques. The convenience sampling technique brings speed, easy implementation and economy. Six (6) open-ended questions addressed to 50 voluntary teachers to determine the opinions of teachers about increasing the quality of teaching process. Before the final form of the openended questionnaire, opinions of 2 specialists who have doctoral degree in Department of Curriculum and Instruction were obtained, and 5 subject-matter teachers who didn’t include in study group were implemented pretesting. Questionnaire with open-ended questions were designed and participants were asked to write their opinions in the form and send e-mails to researcher including the forms. In this method, participants This study is developed from oral declaration presented in International Congresses on Education, Sarajevo, ”osnia and Herzegovina , -04 June, 2016 i Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 104 Fevzi Dursun EVALUATION OF TEACHERS' OPINIONS RELATING IMPROVING QUALIFICATION IN TEACHING PROCESS were asked to answer the questions as they were asked in the interview. These answers were supposed to be in written form. Questions used to determine teachers’ opinions are as follows: 1. What does it mean to be an active student in teaching process? How do you evaluate this? 2. What can be done to make students active in teaching process? . How do you keep alive student’s interest (voluntary participation without boredom)? 4. How do you support permanent learning? 5. How do you support motivation? 6. Which activities do you implement activities to improve quality of teaching process? Content analysis method was used, one of the qualitative data analysis. In the process of reporting the data, reliability was attempted to increase by quoting teachers’ opinions directly. Participants were coded as TE , TE … In order to increase reliability, two researchers randomly coded 5 open-ended questions; coefficient of coincidence was computed . by using agreeing/agreeing & disagreeing formula. Findings were organized under the seven themes: motivation, active student, teacher, providing permanent learning, features of teaching environment, method, technique and restraining student’s activity. Keywords: teaching process, quality of teaching, motivation, teachers’ opinion 1. Introduction Students, the most important participants of teaching-learning process, should be actively participating in teaching process in order to reach desired knowledge, ability, attitude and behavior. Increasing the quality of teaching process and the effort spent to support permanent learning depends on active and voluntary participation. It is necessary to improve the quality of the teaching process in order to improve the quality of education and students’ success. This cannot be achieved without qualified teachers Seferoğlu, . Azar (2011) emphasized that evaluation of teaching training system is necessary for training teacher with quality and quantity as today’s required. There is demand in education, from pre-school to higher education, though; practices that will improve the quality of education haven’t been implemented. Education programs that are appropriate for society and business world haven’t been improved, and appropriate teaching cannot be provided. It can be say that an education system improving student’s creativity and ability hasn’t been established. In Turkey, an education system focusing on memorization and central examination has been adopted. According to Turkish Education Association, Education Evaluation Report 2014, Turkey is 21 th in productivity index including 30 OECD countries, cannot use properly its sources. (p.89) European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 105 Fevzi Dursun EVALUATION OF TEACHERS' OPINIONS RELATING IMPROVING QUALIFICATION IN TEACHING PROCESS Teacher is the key to the teaching-learning process. That’s why, it is important to determine what and how teachers do. From point of view of this, the main issue is to determine what is wrong or right in teaching implementations by considering teachers’ opinions. Also, it is important to provide new perspectives to teachers and respective about new implementations and suggestions by determining what teachers do and what teachers think in order to adopt an effective teaching process. In today’s education system, there are crucial problems stated by teachers and administrators: active participation of students, maintaining students’ motivation and interests. Efforts have been made to enlighten these points in this study; it is aimed to determine what the teachers do in order to adopt an effective teaching process. For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1169 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 106