Kuwaiti Teachers' Satisfaction with the Social Studies Curriculum and Their Performance in the Classroom

Abstract

This study investigated Kuwaiti teachers' satisfaction with the structure of the social studies curriculum and their performance in the classroom. It aimed to answer two main questions through a twenty-two-item questionnaire applied to a sample of 132 social studies teachers. The results have shown moderate satisfaction in this regard among those teachers. There were no effects of teacher gender, experience, or various school districts on the satisfaction of social studies teachers and their performance in the classroom. The researcher called for reevaluating the curriculum by its developers to pinpoint and rid it of the causes that obstruct higher teachers' satisfaction and performance, mainly its inadequacy to students' interests, needs, skills, creativity, individual differences, and practical learning activities, and up-to-date teaching methods.
 
 Received: 9 September 2021 / Accepted: 5 December 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

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“…Teachers' satisfaction (TS) refers to the extent to which teachers feel pleased, content, or fulfilled with the experience of using AI-powered design tools to create and deliver their lectures. It encompasses their attitudes towards the ease of use and effectiveness of the tools, as well as their overall level of job satisfaction and motivation towards using the tools in the future (Alhajri, 2022;Liu & Zhang, 2021). Teacher Technical Skills (TTS) are the teachers' proficiency in using technology and other technical tools to enhance the learning experience and engage students (Faltynkova et al, 2020;Hulela et al, 2014;Mo & Yan, 2021).…”