Abstract

This study aims to analyze pre-service teachers’ narrations about important teaching experiences, which mostly affected them and which they mostly enjoyed.  In the present study, a qualitative research was used. The study was carried out with 214 pre-service teachers in MuÄŸla, Turkey who wrote short memoirs on learning experiences as prompted by a research question. In these memoirs, they shared those experiences, which left the biggest impressions on them. The data were analyzed thematically and, based on the results, re-read through the concept of memoirs, in order to answer the question on how the data might be understood as elements of good teaching applications.

Key words: Course experience, good teaching, memoirs, teaching experience.