Teacher views on secondary 9th grade physics course curriculum

The main purpose of this study is analyzing the opinions of the teacher? concerning of the physics curriculum of 9th class of secondary education which was executed and put in practice since the 2007-2008 academic year.The research was carried out in a servaillance model. The working group of the research is the teacher who were actively attended in 9th class physics lectures in the secondary schools of Altındağ district of Ankara in 2009-2010 academic year. In the research, ?The Scale of Education Program of Physics Curriculum? has been used for the purpose of collection data. In the analysis of data, the median (Interquartile Range-IQR) has been used in subscale scores and overall impression of the survey and grouping of teacher? education level, and mean ± deviation has been used in grouping of the other variables.In conclusion, while the teacher were declaring positive views concerning with the ?achievements? and ?content? dimensions of the education program of physics curriculum; they were expressing that they were having troubles relating with the ?Learning and teaching conditions? and ?Measurement and evaluation conditions? dimensions and indicating their partially positive opinions. The symptoms that obtained, presented that the teacher who are attending the 9th class physics lectures in the secondary schools, couldn?t make cooperation with the social environment while implementing of the program, couldn?t get adequate support from school management, tried to apply constructivism successfully that program brought to them, experienced problems originated from lack of time in the realization of activities. While the teacher were implementing the program, they had expressed that they had some difficulties in communicating with the parents and the social environment. Also it had appeared that the lack of infrastructure of the teacher, intended for physics curriculum in the schools, generated negativity in the implementation of program. Teacher had expressed that they had generally no problem with the students in the aplications.