Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions on Protein Synthesis: Recommended Solutions versus Learning Difficulty

Protein synthesis is a difficult topic to learn among students and teachers in literature. Also detailed research has not been found about the cause and nature of the difficulties encountered in the learning and teaching of this subject. From this point of view, the purpose of this study is to determine the reasons for the learning difficulties that the prospective biology teachers experienced in protein synthesis and the suggested solutions from the perspective of the prospective biology teachers. The sample was 42 fourthgrade prospective teachers who attend to department of biology education at Kazim Karabekir Faculty of Education at Ataturk University in Turkey. In this study, using qualitative research method, prospective teachers were asked to response two open-ended questions. (1) What are the factors that cause you to be forced to learn protein synthesis? (2) What do you recommend to come up with these difficulties? According to the findings obtained the variables affecting the prospective teachers’ learning include classroom settings, textbook, teacher, student and subject. In addition, the findings also indicate that solutions recommended by prospective teachers included in the variables related to classroom setting, textbook, teacher and teaching process