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 1achieve 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.
Key words: Method, Technique, Teaching Methods and Techniques
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