Attitudes of Primary School Teachers towards Teaching Methods and Techniques

Abstract

This study aims to detect the methods and techniques that primary school teachers use in
their lessons and to determine their attitudes towards these methods and techniques. To 1
achieve this aim,
a Likert type attitude test is applied to 200 teachers working in Afyon and its villages and towns. Basing
on the results obtained from a factor analysis, questions are prepared to determine the attitudes of
teachers regarding teaching methods and techniques. The scale includes items under four dimensions
which are factors affecting method selection, alternative methods and techniques, techniques started to be
used in constructivist approach and techniques used in traditional approach. The research is organized
according to general scanning model. For the analysis of the data; t- test, one way ANOVA, frequencies,
and arithmetical average are used. The level of meaningfulness is taken as 0.05 in the study. This
research found that there is no difference in the attitudes of the primary school teachers towards the use of
teaching methods and techniques in terms of gender, experience in teaching years, branch and field.
However, meaningful difference has been found in the attitudes of teachers in the traditional approach
dimension of the scale regarding the duration of teaching