Abstract:

This study aims to determine the perceptions of teachers about the health of schools taking part in EU Projects. The sample of this research includes 381 teachers working at 27 state and 9 private schools taking part in European Union Projects between the years of 2012 and 2014 within the boundaries of İzmir. “Organizational Health Scale” was used in order to collect data in this study. Percentage, frequency, mean, standart deviation, T-test and one-way ANOVA were performed to determine teachers' perceptions of school health according to demographic variables. The findings show that the level of perceptions of teachers about the health of their schools taking part in EU Projects is quite high and while the level of perceptions of teachers has no statistically significant differences in related to their gender, total teaching experience, education status at the all subdimensions, it shows significant differences in relation to their branch, grade(primary, secondary and high school), school type, and whether the teachers take part active roles in projects or not. According to the study, classroom teachers, teachers working in primary schools, teachers working in private schools and teachers not taking active roles in EU Projects have a higher level of health perception and about their schools than other teachers in their schools.

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