Abstract:

The purpose of the research is to evaluate the opinions of primary school teachers on distance education and face-to-face education. Teachers who teach with face-to-face education applications have started distance education as a result of countries' transition to distance education with the Covid-19 virus spreading rapidly around the world. Although this process was difficult for primary school teachers who did not have experience in distance education applications, it enabled teachers to closely familiarize themselves with distance education applications and facilitated their comparative evaluation of face-to-face education and distance education. The data was collected by interview technique in this research which was carried out via phenomenology, which is one of the qualitative research patterns. Descriptive analysis method was used for analyzing the data. The data of the study was obtained through interviews with 15 active working classroom teachers in the 2019-2020 academic year. It was determined that the teachers who participated in the study spent the process more efficiently in relation to their experience of using technology, but teachers who had less experience in using technology had difficulties during the process. Teachers stated that parent support is very important because of the small age group of the students in the distance education process. Participants mentioned that distance education can be used in case of necessity, however they prefer face-to-face education rather than dıstance education in normal conditions. In conclusion, it is thought that diversification and increase of the in-service training should be given to teachers in terms of the quality of education, and providing the training for parents at the same time could be beneficial.

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