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The objective of the present study is to determine personal and domestic traits of pre-service classroom teachers and their views on the program they attend, teaching profession and life. Participants of the study conducted with survey model included 941 freshmen and senior pre-service teachers attending Primary Education Teaching Department, Classroom Teaching Programs in Anadolu, Eskişehir Osmangazi, Pamukkale, Niğde, Bartın, On Sekiz Mart, Sakarya, Mersin and Fırat universities during 2014 – 2015 academic year. Research data were collected with Classroom Teaching Pre-Service Teacher Information Survey, Attitudes Towards Teaching Profession Scale and Life Satisfaction Scale, all designed by the authors. Analysis of collected data was conducted using descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages. Study findings demonstrated that majority of the students attending classroom teaching program graduated from Anatolian High Schools and general high schools, were children of middle income and culture level families and most preferred classroom teaching program as 1 – 4. choices in the university admission exam. Also, students in classroom teaching program stated their reasons for selecting teaching profession as “their scores in the university admission exam” and “their love for children.” According to study findings, pre-service teachers had an intermediate level attitude towards the teaching profession and also had a medium level life satisfaction. Furthermore, it was determined that majority of classroom teaching students were not employed outside the school, more than half declared their level of satisfaction with the program they attend as “a little,” most stated that they were anxious about “assignment/Public Personnel Selection Exam” and “location of assignment,” more than half considered the current situation of teaching profession as “bad,” and they were interested in “music,” “computer/Internet,” and “serial TV shows” in their daily lives.

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