Teachers' Opinions on the Teaching Skills of Primary Teacher Candidates

The purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of primary teachers regarding the teaching skills of teacher candidates taking the teaching practice course. In order to achieve this purpose, the opinions of 3 primary teachers working in a primary school were examined. The classroom teachers who participated in the research were educators with at least 25 years of experience in their profession. In the research, a semi-structured interview design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The primary teachers who shared their experiences teach 1st-2nd-3rd-4th grades in a primary school. The interviews lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes in total. According to the research findings, the problems of primary teachers working in a primary school were gathered under the themes of “subject field knowledge, field education knowledge, planning, classroom management and communication”.