Teachers' views on teaching methods they adopt in Contemporary Turkish and world history lesson

The aim of the study is to determine the teaching methods adopted by history teachers in teaching Contemporary Turkish and World (CT&WH) lesson, how often they adopt these teaching methods according to the units and the reasons why they can not vary by teaching methods. The questionnaire form, which was used as a data collection tool in the study, was formed by the researcher by taking expert opinions. The frequency of adoption of ten teaching methods according to the units of CT&WH lesson determined by the questionaire, which is suitable for the aim of the study, was determined. In addition; teachers‟ opinions about the reasons for not vary by teaching methods of this lesson were collected. The population the study consist of 114 official and private high schools and 183 history teachers working in these high schools in Edirne and Kırklareli provinces of the Ministry of National Education in the second term of 2018-2019 academic year. With the questionaire prepared, 148 teachers were reached and their opinions on the subject were collected. In the analysis of these data collected, descriptive statistics and analyses were carried out by making benefit of IBM SPSS Statistics 20 Program. As a result of the analyses, it was found that the most commonly adopted methods in CT&WH lessons were "Lecturing Method" and "Question and Answer Method", and the least frequently adopted methods were "Field Trip Method", "Role Playing Method" and "Problem Solving Method". The most important reasons for not being able to apply various methods in the teaching of CT&WH lessons were found to be "Intensity of the curriculum" and "its` being an elective lesson". In addition, it was examined whether there is an association between the method (s) that teachers always adopt in the CT&WH lessons and the variables "Gender", "Graduation Status", "School Type" the teachers are working at and "Years of Experience" or not. There was no statistically significant association found between the method (s) that teachers always adopt in the CT&WH lessons and the variables "Graduation Status ", "School Type", and "Years of Experience" after performing Chi-square test for independence (p> 0.05) but a statistically significant association was found between the method (s) adopted in the CT&WH lessons and the variable "gender" (p <0.05).