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With the changes done in the teacher training process in Turkey, the teachers who are going to begin active duty are asked to take a candidate teacher training under the supervision of an advisor teacher before they start their duty in the city they have been appointed, and these changes have been introduced in 2015-2016 academic years. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate Candidate Teacher Training being applied since 2015-2016 in our country. The study was conducted with 20 classroom teachers who were appointed as teachers in February in 2015-2016 academic years and took their candidate teacher training in Agri. Case study which is one of the qualitative research models was used in the study. Descriptive survey model was used in the study. The data of the study was collected with interviews, 6 open-ended questions prepared by the researchers were asked to the candidate teachers and the obtained answers were analyzed through content analysis. At the end of the study, the candidate teachers expressed their positive opinions on related to their experiences, their knowledge about the school work and operations in the Candidate Teacher Training Process by using the experience of the supervisor and the seminar teachers. However, it was determined that the candidate teachers confront many problems particularly in implementation. The candidate teachers expressed that a much more effective training can be applied by removing the existing problems with the recommendations they made about the process. [This study was presented in II International Social Sciences Conference (12th-14th October 2016--Agri.]