Obstacles faced in Utilizing Modern Methods in Teaching the subjects of Geography from Teachers' view in Preparatory Schools in Kalar's District

Abstract

The aim of this research is to identify the obstacles that face Preparatory School teachers when teaching the material courses in using modern teaching methods inside classes, The research focuses on School Teachers of the Geographical Material courses at Preparatory stage in the district of Kalar for the School year (2022-2023), (40) teachers out of (122), were stratified randomly chosen to apply the research tool upon to fulfill the aim of this research, The study used descriptive approach, drawing on the study tool, a questionnaire consist of (23) questions divided into five items , which are (strongly disagree, disagree ,neither agree nor disagree, agree, strongly agree), meeting the scores (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) respectively, then calculated its Validity and Reliability,The most important statistical means applied in the study are (descriptive statistics ,and pearson correlation coefficient), after applying the tool to the research subjects and calculating the results, The researcher concluded the followings: school administrative and environmental related obstacles were the main causes of Preparatory school teachers abandoning modern Teaching Methods in Geographical material classes, after that obstacles related to the curriculum and students when using of modern Teaching Methods, finally, obstacles related to the teacher.Based on the result, a set of proposal and recommendations have been suggested.