Material Development and Productivity Workshop
“Preschool Teaching Material Development and Productivity Worksop” has started to provide services to students of the area in various courses, particularly “Material Development” and “Productivity and Development,” to improve professional competencies of the teacher candidates, since 2016.
Educational tools and materials play an active role in the developmental areas of preschool period and are important part of the teaching. In accordance with its vision and mission, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim Univesity Department of Preschool Education are not only aware of the importance of this issue, but also has gone into action and actualized Turkey’s best-equipped Preschool Workshop.
In this workshop, the students cultivate materials and tools that contribute to the improvement of motor development, cognitive development, sensory development and self-care skills. Teacher candidates, after manufacturing tools and materials by combining the remainder materials with simple production methods, and with the help of different materials and available equipment and production machines in the workshop, produce professional tools and materials that are used in this field. Hereby, by instilling the value and the magnitude of the production in the teacher candidates, their creative imagination improves in their own field and when necessary they have the ability to produce more effective materials within their own means.
In all teaching areas another professional characteristic that the teacher candidates need to improve is creative thinking and problem solving ability. Owing to the resources in the preschool teaching workshop, it is paved the way for the improvement of accumulation and experiences which will contribute to the formation of productivity skills that are closely related to the convergent dimension of creativity and the formation of divergent thoughts.
The equipment and resources of the Preschool Teaching Material Development and Productivity Workshop are as follows;
- Material lockers and work benches
- Consumables
- Electrical and normal hand tools
- Desktop woodworking machines
- Technological devices that used in the development of educational materials within the framework of academic studies along with the contribution to the students’ studies
- Cuteng 100W laser cutter and engraving machine
- Raise N2, 3B printer
- Poysan EL 3040, Desktop CNC Router