The teaching profession competence requires the teacher’s acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills with regard to his/her teaching area. It is important that teachers should be trained in a way that they become competent in three competency areas which are general knowledge about the teaching profession, field knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge. Competence fields in the process of teaching and learning are Planning, teaching process, classroom management, communication, assessment and evaluation. It is crucial that teachers should apply these features properly for lasting and meaningful learning process in order to have a complete professional competence. Some characteristics of an effective teacher include "use of effective teaching methods in the classroom", "being an expert at classroom management," and "being just in terms of assessment and evaluation”. In sum teacher competence in the teaching learning process is therefore important for meaningful and effective learning. This research aims to reveal competence of teacher candidates regarding application of teaching and learning process based on views of the fourth grade pre service science teachers. The semi-structured interview technique was used to collect data. In order to answer the research questions, interviews were conducted with 16 fourth grade pre service science teachers who took courses during the spring at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. Findings of the study demonstrate that majority of the pre service science teachers don’t know many of the active teaching techniques. The interviews also revealed that they tend to create a learning process that does not intend to develop talents that each student has; in another words it does not take the individual differences into consideration The educational process consists of three basic elements whichare teachers, students and curriculum. Teacher qualifications areimportant for the success of education. The teaching competence isdefined as teachers’ having necessary knowledge and skills with regardarea he/she is expected to teach. It is important that teachers shouldbe trained in a way that they become component in three competencyareas which are general knowledge about the teaching profession, fieldknowledge, and pedagogical knowledge.SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCHThe shaper of the teaching and learning process is the teacherbecause it is planned, implemented and directed by the teacher. Ateaching and learning process which includes lesson planning,preparation of the materials, arrangement of learning settings,organization of out of class activities, diversifying of instruction according to individual differences, and effective use of time andbehavior management will provide students with meaningful and lastinglearning. Consequently, it is important to reveal competency of teachercandidates regarding teaching and learning process by determining atwhich level the science teacher candidates apply the aforementionedfeatures and specify the existing defects.METHODIn this study qualitative research methods have been used. Theparticipants of the study consist of 16 fourth grade teacher candidateswho receive education in Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University 2014-2015school year. Teacher candidates have been selected via maximumvariation sampling method which is one of the purposeful samplingmethods. 16 teachers were interviewed with meetings lasting abouttwenty minutes each. The interviews were recorded with a taperecorder. A semi-structured interview form was used during thesessions. In the preparation of the interview form expert opinions werereceived from 8 experts, 4 of whom from the area of science educationwhile the remaining 4 are from the area of measurement andassessment. A pilot study was conducted with two teacher candidatesto evaluate understandability and relevance of the questions. At the endof this process the forms were re-examined and re-arranged and madeready for implementation. The data obtained from interviews were codedby researchers and another science educator and inter-coder reliabilitypercentage is calculated as 82.76%. The privacy of personal informationof the interviewed teachers regarded by coding them as T1, T2, T3...T16. T1 points to first teacher candidates while T6 represents 6thteacher candidates and T16 stands for 16th teacher candidates.FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONThe teacher candidates state that they are going to employ the SixThinking Hats technique and the Creative Drama method. The use ofthese methods of teaching, which are among the active teachinglearningmethods, is seen as a positive feature. One of the most criticalfactors in the teaching-learning process is teacher’s decidingappropriate method and technique at the appropriate time according tothe purpose and subject to be taught. In addition to what a scienceteacher is going to teach, how he/she is going to teach and if he/shehas the required knowledge and skills is also very important. Whiledepending on the educational attainments, the content and features ofthe students there are many active teaching methods like case study,problem solving, and the station methods and none of the students’mentioning about these methods may indicate that teacher candidatesare not informed fully about active teaching methods. Thus it may beconcluded that teacher candidates seem to prefer a teacher orientedteaching environment rather than a student centered one which maycreate problems regarding the acquisition of the educationalattainments.The teacher candidates also stated that they are going to takepersonal differences of the students into consideration with regard toarrangement of the learning environment and they will prefer a Ushaped classroom setting and will conduct experiments. Learning of thecontent by the students depends on efficiently arrangement of teaching and learning process