The role of student-oriented educational strategies in initial teacher training

The application of the educational strategies centred on the student/subject of learning provides the teacher with multiple opportunities of discovering the students' personalities, and the students with the possibility of creating learning experiences and forming or practicing some competences and skills specific to the didactic profession. Their application in the teaching practice and sharing the success of these new seminar experiences have represented for the students who have attended these pedagogical subjects a premise for the motivational development in the teaching profession. Starting from these grounds, this research aims at improving the differences between the theoretical and practical training of the teachers, issued from implementing the student-oriented educational strategies. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ayse Cakir Ilhan