General Information

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE TEACHING

Head of Department: Prof.Dr. Seyit Ahmet Oymak

Department of Science Teaching was established in 1998 within the Department of Primary Education at Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education and started accepting students in the 1998-1999 academic year.

The vision of our department; To train teacher candidates who understand science, develop positive attitudes towards science and can graduate with science literacy gains. With this vision, our department has had the honor of graduating hundreds of science teachers since 2002.

In our department, education is provided at three different levels: undergraduate, graduate and doctoral.

In the undergraduate courses of our science teaching department; It includes field courses (physics, chemistry, biology), education courses and elective courses. Along with the undergraduate courses taken, teacher candidates are instilled with the skills to present information to students with innovative methods, techniques and theories. "Learning by doing", which is an integral part of science along with field courses, was given as practice as well as theory, and prospective teachers were enabled to transform knowledge into practice, gain practice and prepare for the future. Practical courses are carried out in three laboratories: physics, chemistry and biology. Our department has approximately 250 students in undergraduate programs.

Score Type and Quota

Our department accepts students from the numerical field. Our general quota, which was initially 150, was first reduced to 100 and then determined as 55 for both the first and second education. Currently, around 60 students are joining us as freshmen. Our graduates can work as Science Teachers in public or private educational institutions and are preferred as qualified graduates.

Postgraduate courses continue within the Institute of Educational Sciences. In these lessons; Qualitative-quantitative method knowledge and statistics courses are given to students to develop, apply and evaluate research techniques so that they can think like scientists.

Academic staff

A total of 9 faculty members, including 5 professors, 3 associate professors and 1 assistant professor, work in the Department of Science Teaching, which is structured under the Department of Primary Education of Atatürk Faculty of Education.

Our faculty members who have served as the Head of the Department since its opening: Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Ayla GÜRDAL, Prof.Dr. Hale BAYRAM, Prof.Dr. Fatma ŞAHİN, Prof.Dr. Mehtap Yıldırım and Prof.Dr. He is Seyit Ahmet Oymak.

Master's and Doctoral Programs

There are master's and doctoral programs in our department. Master's and doctoral programs are coordinated by Marmara University Institute of Educational Sciences. For application, student requirements and other information, please follow the website of the Institute of Educational Sciences.

Student Representatives

We have student representatives at every grade level.

Click here to access the list of Class Student Representatives.

Promotional Brochure and detailed information

You can download the department introduction brochure in Turkish as a pdf document here.

You can find detailed information about the department and ECTS credits in Turkish here.

You can download administrative forms from here and student forms from here.

Previous heads of our department:

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