Opinions of primary and secondary school teachers on occupational matters and their effects on performance

Abstract

The aim of this study is to put forward occupational problems of primary and secondary school teachers along with their opinions concerning effects of those problems to their performance. The data gained in the study was reached in qualitative and quantitative ways. Among samples, 903 quantitative ones were obtained by teachers at the state and private primary and secondary schools in Denizli city center, and 109 qualitative ones samples were made up of in random sampling. According to findings, the most critical problem concerning the attendance to occupational matters of primary and secondary school teachers along with effects of those matters to the performance, in the likert type scale, is making teachers out of the drawing teaching - programmed process. One other critical problem, in the open-ended written inquiry scale, attendance of primary and secondary school teachers to occupational matters and effects of those problems to performance is "insufficiency in teaching materials". © 2009.