Teacher opinions about application of the optional information technologies course teaching program in primary education (The example of Malatya)

The aim of this research is to evaluate the Optional Information Technologies Course Teaching Program in Primary Education according to teacher opinions. The model that used during the research is scanning model. The target population of the study is composed of 66 Information Technologies teachers, who work at different schools (totally 55 schools) that locate in the centre of Malatya. The documents that provide data for the research are questionnaires. Totally, there are 73 questions in the questionary. Five of these questions are about personal information and the rest of these questions (66 closed ended and 2 open ended questions) intend to examine the application level of the Information Technologies Course Teaching Program in accordance with the elements of the program (acquirements, content, learning and teaching processes, evaluation). Each of the closed ended questions (66), which intend to determine teachers? opinions about application of the program, have three choices like in ?never (1), partially (2), absolutely (3)?. To analyze the gained data here used SPSS 15.0 packaged software. The data were analyzed using freguency (f) and percentage (%), as well as significance test such as t-test, variance analysis (ANOVA), Mann Whitney U, Kruskall Wallis H according to the homogeneity of the variance.As a result of the research, it is revealed that (according to teachers in the process of the application of the Information Technologies Course Teaching Program): weekly course hours are inadequate to apply all activities and use all assessment and evaluation techniques; classroom size are too crowded; the fact that teachers can?t give marks to students while evaluating their success affects students? success negatively and teachers have difficulties in getting performance and project works from students; activities in the activity CDs are inadequate both quantitatively and qualitatively; Algorithmic Logic and Database Programme subjects are not suitable for the level of the classroom.It is seen that there is no opinion differentiation through teachers in the means of their schools? socio-economical level and in-service training situation, but there is a differentiation in the means of the graduated schools and occupational experience of teachers.There are several suggestions in parallel with the results that gained from the research.Key Words: The Information Technologies Course Teaching Program, Primary Education, Curriculum, Program Evaluation