شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

This study aimed at identifying the trends of faculty members at the College of Education at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University towards the implementation of elementary female teacher program. A descriptive survey method was utilized. The study sample consisted of (63) faculty members, and was conducted during the second semester of the academic year 1438/ 2017. Results revealed that the program of the primary grade teacher corresponds to a neutral degree, where the average of the axis was (3.29). There were two important advantages of the program: the content of the preparation in the program would achieve growth in aspects of field experience and educational aspects in general. There were also three negative points for the current program: It failed to graduate primary teachers with high efficiency, the insufficiency of content preparation of the program in terms of the specialized academic aspects of the teacher, the difficulty of maintaining the educational philosophy of the program during its adaptation to the predominant education system at the current elementary schools. The study sample agreed to the justifications that lead to implementing a specialized program for elementary grades. The mean score of this axis was (4.17). One of the most important reasons for the need to implement a specialized program to prepare teachers of the primary grades was the special developmental nature of the primary grades, as well as the approval of the necessary procedures proposed to achieve the program for its objectives. The general mean of this axis was (4,45); including the need to construct a new program to prepare the primary grade teacher by local teams, making the current program one of the sources for development. (Published abstract)