Will teachers be appointed through Interview? Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin clarified the much-discussed issue of 'Interview for teacher appointment' in Journalist Kübra Par's program; . “There are teachers who got 100 out of 19 in the field exam, so we want to have an interview.”
“If I wanted to be popular, I wouldn't do this, I would say, 'I'm canceling the interview.' I wouldn't argue with my President, I wouldn't argue with the public. “I would be a very popular person.”
Secondary School Mathematics Teacher's Field Knowledge Is Not Measured in the System Currently!
Journalist Kübra Par, President Erdoğan said, "Interviews will be abolished", and you argued that it should not be abolished, why?" posed the question. Minister Tekin said the following on this subject: “I would like to talk about a few issues that make me uncomfortable about teacher interviews. Currently, our teacher friends are taking the KPSS exam when they are appointed. It consists of three sessions. The first is general knowledge and general ability, the second is the education units test, and the third is the Teaching Content Knowledge test. We appoint teachers in approximately 130 branches. This entire branch takes two exams. However, ÖSYM conducts Teacher Field Knowledge Examination for 130 out of 18 students within its own limitations. There are no exams where we test the knowledge of the under-18 section regarding the field to which they are assigned. Therefore, the KPSS score is the score obtained from the first two exams. Do I not have to measure the field knowledge of our friend who will be appointed to the Secondary Education Mathematics department?
TEACHERS: “INTERVIEW SHOULD BE Abolished”
How Should I Entrust Our Children to a Teacher Who Scores an Average of 100 out of 19 in the Teaching Field Knowledge Exam?
“The Field Knowledge knowledge of our teacher friends in 18 branches is measured. The average success rate in secondary school mathematics in the Teaching Field Knowledge Exam held in 2023 is 19 percent. That's why we're doing interviews. This is what we do in the interview. When moving from one university to another, they even have professors give trial lessons. We also want to give a trial lesson to the teachers. I won't favor anyone, I just want our children to learn from a good teacher. The other issue is that a friend of mine who is a mathematics graduate has a low success score. Let's say I change my curriculum. Does the teacher know my curriculum?
How to Conduct a Teacher Interview? Here are the Details
“We say that that day we will take the exam from the Ministry of Education 9th Grade Mathematics curriculum. Secondly, you will have a code number electronically when it is sent to the jury. We will take the security measures we can. You will not recognize the juror. You press a button and the topic you want to tell appears. The teacher is given 5 minutes of preparation time. After giving the lecture, they asked me this question, I explained this and it is recorded in the minutes. We will also take the camera recording. The juror will enter their note and the system will close. There will be no subsequent intervention. I say this with open heart: I want to entrust the children entrusted to us to competent friends. We cannot do this with the current table. Why should I, as the Minister of National Education, implement a system that will fail me? This issue is not an issue that will fall victim to populism. If I wanted to be popular, I wouldn't do this, I would say, 'I'm canceling the interview.' I wouldn't argue with my President, I wouldn't argue with the public. I would be a very popular person. I am uncomfortable with the current system, Ms. Kübra. Politicians criticize me. X political party conducts an interview while buying tea shops. "It would be unfair not to do this to the teachers to whom I will entrust 20 million students."
