General Information

Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Faculty of Education started education in the 2011-2012 academic year. Our aim is to produce science in the field of education; produce information; meeting the educational needs of the community, solving educational problems, and ensuring their continued development; to contribute to the development of the education system. Our aim also includes the idea of contributing to our society and country by educating the idealist teachers who can use modern teaching techniques skillfully and integrated with the culture of the society; and to solve the existing problems of our education system and to bring the contemporary developments into the world.

In the age of rapid change and development of information, communication and technology, the level of development is measured by the importance they place on education, informatics and education systems. Training faculties are also a scientific means to solve problems of education systems, to continuously improve them and to operate the system. The value and importance of the education faculties increases day by day, and their duties are constantly increasing. The faculty is endeavoring to fulfill our task better day by day. Our faculty continues to develop academic and technological infrastructure in order to educate individuals who are self-confident, thinking, productive, and able to comment, guarantee our future.

There are nine departments in the Faculty of Education. These departments are:

1. English Language Teaching

2. Arabic Language Teaching

3. Guidance and Psychologic Counseling

4. Pre-School Education Teaching

5. Turkish Language Teaching

6. Special Education Teaching

7. Primary School Teaching

8. Primary School Mathematics Teaching

9. Music Teaching

There are also minor and double major programs for our students in the Education Faculty and our students can also do minor or double major in other faculties.

In addition to regular foreign language courses at our university, English, Arabic, Ottoman and Russian language courses are offered free of charge by our instructors throughout the academic year.

All kinds of support and assistance for our students to participate in the Erasmus program are also ongoing.

As IZU Faculty of Education, we are always on the side of our students and in their efforts to prepare for life, to find a job, to develop and advance their profession, in the process of education and after graduation.

We also have various graduate programs in the fields of 'Educational Administration and Supervision', 'Guidance and Psychological Counseling' and 'Family Counseling and Education' in the Department of Educational Sciences in the Faculty. In the Department of English Language Teaching, there is a 'English Language Education' MA program and a PhD program in 'English Language and Literature' are being conducted. Our efforts to open graduate and doctoral programs in other departments are continuing.

We congratulate our valuable students who prefer our faculty, and I believe that you will achieve your short, medium and long term goals in an environment of tolerance and peace, and that you will always be happy and successful in life.