Homeroom teachers? perceptions regarding their usages of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades music lesson ?theacher?s guidance books?which were started to be used in the academic year of 2007-2008

This study is conducted to investigate 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade homeroom teachers? usages states of the ?Teacher?s Guidance Book? written within the Primary Education Music Course Teaching Program in music courses. Previous research showed that homeroom teachers encounter some difficulties in music classes. Fort his reason, this study is structures in three levels: ?Song?, ?auditory song teaching?, and ?activities.?In this study survey reseach method is used, and the teachers were given a questionnaire consisting of 31 items. The items included choices as the following: 1: Totally disagree, 2: Slightly agree, 3: Somewhat agree, 4: Mostly agree, and 5: Totally agree. SPSS program was used in the data analysis process.The participants in this study were 109 homeroom teachers from 15 schools. In the province of Ankara three schools from each of Çankaya, Yenimahalle, Mamak, Altındağ ve Keçiören counties constituted this number.In Primary school music education song is the basic material and the quality of the song is crucial to music education. For thei reason, this study aims to find out homeroom teachers? attitudes towards songs. To help learning take place by using Total Physical Response Approach based on one of the basic principles of ?constructivist approach? which suggests ?permanent learning occurs when activities are used?, in the guidance books song teaching is enriched by various techniques which will help students become more active and creative in the music lessons.During auditory song teaching mostly Orff and drama techniques were used and song teaching became more active. For this reason, in this study the participants were asked questions about their ways of conducting-developing activities as well as their auditory song teaching technique.ivBased on the collected data conclusions and suggestions were made. The most striking result was that the teachers had difficulty in learning the songs only the notes of which were given in the guidance books. In order fort he homeroom teachers to be able to develop an active and efficient music class, first of all they should master the songs. Since this is the case, in order to be able to learn and teach songs the teachers should be given a copy of each song. In addition to this, the results showed that the homeroom teachers think that they do not have enough knowledge to use Orff and drama techniques in the classes efficiently, and they are eager to participate Professional development workshops related to this fields.