School Administrators' Opinion about Implementing Curriculum Developed in accordance with Constructivist Approach

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine what do school administrators think about implementing curriculum developed in accordance with constructivist approach. Because this research was aimed at determining the current conditions, a descriptive model was used. This research was carried out with 104 school administrators working at Kırklareli province center and it’s districts in 2014-2015 academic year. In order to determine school administrators’ opinion about constructivist approach semistructured interview form that prepared within scope of this research was applied to participants. According to results school administrators have emphasized that generally there are problems in implementing curriculum developed in accordance with constructivist approach. Likewise school administrators have indicated that teachers, parents of students and learning environments aren’t sufficient to implementing curriculum developed in accordance with constructivist approach. In addition to it has been found that school administrators have some proposals to implementing curriculum developed in accordance with constructivist approach be more efficient such as providing in-service training about constructivist approach to educational staff and parents of students, making appropriate physical environment up and ensuring adequate educational material