2024 Primary School Turkish Curriculum Opinions of Classroom Teachers

Economic, social and political developments in the world are reflected in the education policies of countries. Especially rapid innovations in technology change the needs in the education and training process and all these situations make it compulsory to adapt the programs to the conditions of the day. In order to keep up with the current situation of the rapidly developing and changing global world, curricula are updated periodically in Turkey as in all countries. The aim of this study is to obtain the opinions and thoughts of classroom teachers, who are the implementers of the program, regarding the Primary School Turkish Course Curriculum, which was renewed in 2024 within the framework of the Turkish Century Education Model. Case study method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used as the research model. Twenty classroom teachers working in public schools in the central districts of Van province constitute the study group of the current research. The data obtained by using the open-ended interview form created by the researcher and finalized by taking expert opinions were analyzed by content analysis method. Codes were created from the data obtained using the open coding method and similar codes were combined under the same theme and tabulated. In the study, it was concluded that the themes and theme contents in the program were appropriate, the number of acquisitions was sufficient and appropriate for the grade levels, the change in the letter groups was not functional, but the change in the writing book was the right decision, and in general, the program had a student-oriented, well-organized content that responded to the needs.