Problems Experienced by Teachers in Providing Auxiliary Resources in Secondary Schools

Abstract

In order for teachers to achieve the desired level of success in teaching activities, to facilitate learning and access to information, to ensure the permanence of the information and experiences learned, and to make teaching processes more fun and motivating, various materials and auxiliary resources are used in addition to textbooks in the education and training process. Since the use of different tools and equipment is of great importance in teaching processes, it has become necessary and even mandatory for teachers to use auxiliary resources in schools. The purpose of this research is to examine the problems encountered by teachers in different branches working in official secondary schools in providing auxiliary resources and to reveal the ideas of teachers in the context of possible solution suggestions. The study group of the research consists of 33 teachers in different branches working in official secondary schools. The participants of the research were determined by the maximum variation method. The data were collected by semi-structured interview form and descriptive analysis technique was used to analyze the data. According to the findings obtained as a result of the analysis, it has been determined that the textbooks have quality problems, that due to the importance of central exams in our current education system, the textbooks are inadequate in terms of both subject and question type in the preparation phase of the students for the exams and that they do not serve the student's learning process sufficiently.       

By evaluating the findings, it was reached that the teachers who participated in the research stated that purchasing auxiliary resources constitutes a financial burden for parents, teachers have difficulty in getting their parents to purchase auxiliary resources because auxiliary resources bring additional costs to parents, parents consider purchasing auxiliary resources besides textbooks unnecessary, the prices of auxiliary resources are high, school administrations pressure teachers not to use resources, there are many different resources in the market and this situation makes it difficult to choose the right resource, and some of the auxiliary resources have content problems. The purposes and functions of textbooks can be listed as structuring and developing learning, guiding learning, self-learning, and contributing to measurement and evaluation. However, it was observed that the absence of these mentioned features in the current textbooks or their deficiencies, the preparation and quality of auxiliary resource books, and their visuality forced teachers, students, and parents to purchase resource books. This study covers only middle schools and since there is not much work in this field, research can be conducted in other primary and high school levels and the literature can be added to