Evaluation of Primary School Teachers’ Teaching Methods Used in Science and Technology Course

• Main Authors: Serdarhan Musa TAŞKAYA, Hikmet SÜRMELİ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gaziantep University 2014-06-01
• Series: Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
• Subjects: Sınıf öğretmeni; fen ve teknoloji dersi; öğretim yöntem ve teknikleri; Primary school teachers; Science and Technology course; teaching methods and techniques
• Online Access: http://dergipark.gov.tr/jss/issue/24230/256841?publisher=gantep

The purpose of this study is to determine 4th and 5th grade primary teachers’ opinions about teaching methods and techniques used in science and technology course. Thirtysix primary school teachers participated to this study who were working in primary schools in the 2009-2010 academic year in Mersin. To collect the data, open-ended questions were used prepared by researchers. Participants were selected according to their seniorities, genders, and graduate levels. To analyse the data descriptive analysis method were used. The results obtained from this study show that, primary school teachers use five methods on average in science and technology class and most of them prefer the methods of experiment, instruction, and question-answer. In addition, when choosing the methods, permanence of learning feature is sought. Although the teachears want to use experiment method, they are not able to use it and also some other methods can not be used due to the lack of primary schools’ physical facilities. As a result, it was suggested that for science and technology class, primary school teachers need to be taken in-service training programme about teaching methods