Özet:

Special educational teachers who graduate from the Bachelor’s Program in Special Education work with special needs individuals. Special teachers experience various problems while working in the field. The problems they experience are also related to their license training. Thus, becoming the degree programs stronger, qualified and sufficient will contribute to the professional processes of special training teachers. The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of newly graduated persons from the mental disabled teaching bachelor’s program in their professional processes and their views on how their graduated bachelor’s program affects their professional experiences. In accordance with the objective set, 6 teachers have been held semi-structured conversations and these conversations have been resolved by content analysis. The research has been carried out by phenomological methods. Research findings show that the positive and negative experiences teachers with mental disabilities experience in their professional processes are associated with bachelor’s training. It is also one of the other findings that the courses in the bachelor’s program do not cover only the disability groups in the relevant field of maternity and should be carried out by supporting the practices. According to the research findings, it may be recommended to increase the courses for different disability groups, to differentiate the content of the theoretical courses and to increase the scale of the courses.

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