The Problems of the Primary School Teachers in Charge of Teaching and Training United Classrooms: Denizli Case

The goal of this research is to find out the difficulties and problems which primary school teachers who have to teach at first, second, third, fourth and fifth grades together in just one classroom environment (united classrooms). 62 primary school teachers chosen at random and different levels from 120 teachers in charge of teaching and training in the united classrooms in primary schools as explained above in Denizli. The data have been collected on a scale of "likert type”. The internal consistence co-efficient of the scale is .7200. For the analysis of the questionnaire, SPSS software program has been used. These primary school teachers (93 %) have stated that they have “partly” had problems. It has been found out that there is no significant difference among the problem areas in the following fields; the gender, the number of students, the school they have graduated from, the duty they have been assigned, the seniority, the number of staff in such schools, the pupils in the united classrooms, the amount of experience, and the place of residence.