Abstract:

The conditions of the class such as the lighting, population, heating of the class, the efficiency of physical conditions, the board type used in the class, etc. not only affects students, but also affects the attitudes and behaviors of the teacher who is the most efficient person in learning process.. It is expected that because the conditions of the class affects the attitudes and behaviors of the teacher, it raises both the success of him/her directly, and the success of teaching process indirectly. The attitudes of teachers towards learning also affect the behaviors of the teachers, such that the teachers who have positive attitudes lead students to positive attitudes and behaviors, too. The aim of this research is to determine the secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards learning related to their classroom heating, classroom size, physical settings and etc. The research is conducted on 234 male and 222 female teachers (456 teachers in total) in Adıyaman city centre, towns and villages. The independent samples t test and one way Anova test was used via SPSS 20.00 statistical package programme for social science to analyze the data acquired. As a result of the research it can be clearly seen that there are differences in the attitudes of teachers’ towards learning related to classroom conditions. The positive effect of teachers’ gender on attitudes is valued as crucial for the result of the research. That classroom illumination, classroom size and classroom heating affect teachers’ attitude. It has been concluded that there is not any meaningful differences in terms of the gender of the teachers, their professional seniority, the faculty they graduated, the lighting of the class and the type of heating during their teaching process. However, it has been deduced that teachers who have 19 or less students in their class perceive the nature of learning better, are open to learning and have higher expectations about learning. Furthermore, it has been concluded that using interactive whiteboards is helpful for the teachers’ attitudes towards learning and physical conditions must be organized according to the teachers’ perceptions. In general, the classroom conditions affect teachers’ attitudes and it makes it compulsory to improve the classroom and consequently education quality.

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