Monitoring Physics Education Curricula through the teachers perspective

Abstract

Physics Education in Albania, during the last years is subject of continuous discussions between educational experts, teachers and professors. The implementation of the new curricula from 2012, caused a lot of problems, that we are faced every day. The scope of this survey based study was to have some quantitative results of the discussions made between colleagues and experts, in order to make based statements for improvements or changes of the actual curricula to the Ministry of Education. The survey was performed in 12 districts of Albania, and 125 teacher of public/private middle and high schools were part of it. In this work we are focused just in one of the parts of the survey: the number of hours per week in physics in middle and high schools. We asked to the teachers that were part of our survey, the number of hours they teach physics in a week in different classes, if these hours were sufficient or no, and if they had suggestions of how many the number of hours per week in different classes should be. As we expected, teachers believe that the number of hours per week should increase in order to enforce the students' abilities, background and prepare them for the future in the university.