The Effectiveness Of A Training Program In Light Of The Integration Of Technology With Education For Innovative Professional Development Among Geography Teachers For The Secondary Stage In Asir Region

Abstract

The study aimed to design a training program in the light of the integration of technology with education, and to investigate its effectiveness in a program for innovative professional development for geography teachers, and to achieve the goal of the study, the developmental approach was used, through the constructivist approach, and the semi-experimental approach with a pre-dimensional design for an experimental group, and the study tools were: a list of innovative teaching skills, a note card for innovative teaching skills,[1] and a training program based on the integration of technology with education, and the experimental study sample consisted of (20) geography parameters for the stage Secondary school in Asir region, and after conducting the experiment, which lasted six weeks, and the application of study tools, it was found that there were differences between the averages of the scores of the experimental group teachers in the pre-application and their scores in the post-application in favor of the post-application at the level of planning, implementation and evaluation skills and the total degree of innovative teaching skills, and it was also found that the training program based on the integration of technology with education has great effectiveness, as the gain coefficient for Black reached (1.04).

In light of the results of the study, the researcher recommended relying on the training program developed by the researcher to improve the innovative teaching skills of geography teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and to enable geography teachers to apply the integration of technology in education at all stages of the teaching process, especially planning, implementation and evaluation, and to include the courses of the faculties of education with topics related to the integration of technology with education.