THE TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM

• Ministry of National Education – in 1924

• The compulsory education = 8 YEARS

• Ages 6-14

• 16 millions in formal education

• 7 millions in non-formal education

• Total 23 millions students

Preschool Education

• Age range 3-5

• Not compulsory

• 980.000 students (2009)

Basic Education

• Age 6-14

• 8 years

• Compulsory

• Free in public schools

• 10.916.000 students

Secondary Education

• Encloses general, vocational and technical educational institutions

• aims to prepare the students, in line with their interests and talents, for institutions of higher education

• 4 years

• not compulsory

• Free in public schools

• 4.200.000 students

Special Education

•Aims to integrate the individuals with special needs into the community and help them to acquaire occupational skills.

• 17.000 students

Private Education

• Enclose any kind and level of private schools

• private courses

• private vocational courses

• special motor vehicle drivers’ courses

• private tutoring centers

• under the MoNE supervision and inspection

Higher Education

• Encloses all the educational institutions giving min. two years of higher education based on secondary education

• 1.5 millions students

Who am I?

• From Fethiye/Turkey

• Teacher Trainer

• ICT Co-ordinator of Fethiye

• responsible for any kind of ICT activities for teacher training

• all IT classes in public schools

• preparation of reports for the MoNE

• I give following courses to the teachers;

1)CISCO IT Essentials; PC Hardware ans Software

2) CISCO Discovery 1: Fundamentals of Networks

3) Intel Teacher Programme

4) Web 2.0 tools (wiki, blog, google documents)