Fatih YILMAZ’s scientific contributions

Provincial education supervisors visit primary schools twice a year. Especially, since the aim of supervision is to provide guidance to the teachers during the first visit, teachers could be able to discuss with the supervisors openly the professional assistance they need and the difficulties they face at school. Provincial education supervisors have the skills to be listening to teachers' needs, interests and ideas is an effective tool for understanding. In the research, according to teacher views, provincal education supervisors’ listening skills are analyzed depending on some variables primary school teachers and their principals have. The research is in the general survey model. The study population consists of 24614 teachers working in Konya in 2011-2012 academic years. The study sample consists of randomly selected 251 primary school principals and 882 primary school teachers. The research tries to determine whether the teachers’ and the principals’ educational background, professional seniority, branch, duty and gender affect their perception on the provincal education supervisors’ listening skills