An examination of extracurricular time activities lesson: Nallıhan case

With the 2010-2011 academic year and an extracurricular time activities lesson added to the curriculum of primary education, by alleviating the obligatory lessons, it is aimed that the students should attend the social, cultural, artistic and educational activities, and thanks to extracurricular time activities lesson,their social, mental, physical and cultural developments will be better. This research aimed to evaluate the applications which have been mentioned according to the views of class teachers, parents and students. The sample of the research consists of 40 teachers, 300 primary school students and 42 parents who are randomly selected from the parents of eight primary schools in Nallıhan district of Ankara province. Three point likert scale surveys were used as data collection tools in order to determine the opinions of teachers, parents and students about extracurricular time activities. In the questionnaire forms, open-ended questions were also included. The date obtained has been presented by analizing SPSS statistical package program. Structured interview and observation forms are used in order to check the consistency of the data obtained from teachers, students and parents' questionnaires.Interviews were conducted with 10 teachers,students,parents and these interviews lasted for two weeks,they were limited to 10 -15 minutes. In the three classroom belongs to three randomly selected teachers from different school were made an observation during the extracurricular time activities lesson. All scales applied to teachers, students and parents were developed and implemented by the researcher. According to the results of the research, it is seen that the lessons are not well introduced, ıt is not reached the aims of lesson, and the difficulties about guidebook and resources are still continuing. Taking this data into account, the recommendations for researchers and practitioners in the field have been included in the study.