TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS TRANSITIONING TO THE SMART SCHOOL (BLENDED EDUCATION) IN JERUSALEM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
This study aimed to identify the attitudes of teachers in Jerusalem public schools towards the smart school (blended education) and to reveal the difference in viewpoints according to the variables of the study, in addition to identifying the teachers’ perceptions about the requirements for transforming public schools in Jerusalem into smart schools and the obstacles to the transition to the blended learning method The study population consisted of all the teachers of the Palestinian government schools in Al-Quds Governorate, which are within the influence of the "Al-Quds Al-Sharif" Directorate for the academic year 2021/2022. Their number is (988) male and female teachers, while the study sample consisted of (316) individuals who were chosen randomly. The researcher developed a questionnaire derived from Saeed (2020) study, and it consisted of three parts; The first part relates to the personal information of the sample members, and the second part is the teachers’ attitudes towards switching to the smart school (blended education) in public schools in Jerusalem, which included (20) paragraphs distributed in two areas: the trend towards blended learning, and preferences for educational technology, and the third part is It consists of two open-ended questions with the aim of identifying teachers’ perceptions of the requirements for transforming public schools in Jerusalem into smart schools (blended education) and the obstacles to switching to the blended education method from their point of view. The validity of the questionnaire was verified through the validity of the arbitrators. Verify it by calculating the internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) for the study sample, where it was found that it is equal to (.83). The results of the study indicated that the teachers’ attitudes towards switching to the smart school (blended education) in public schools in Jerusalem were moderately positive and indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the significance level (α ≥ 0.05) in the average responses of the study sample to the attitudes of the study sample. Teachers towards switching to the smart school (blended education) in public schools in Jerusalem due to the gender variable, as well as to the field of educational technology preferences, where the differences were in favor of males, and that there were no statistically significant differences for the educational qualification variable, school level, experience, age, your skills level The differences were in favor of the advanced level, the number of lessons that were given in the blended learning method, the number (courses) of technological training programs received in the subject of blended learning, and the highest frequency of teachers’ suggestions about ways Transforming public schools in Jerusalem governorate into smart-answer schools “providing the school with the necessary equipment and means, improving the infrastructure, including internet and electricity, and providing teachers and students With smart devices, and the highest frequency of obstacles to switching to the blended learning method, the answer was “the absence of a greeting structure and an appropriate classroom environment. The study came out with many recommendations.
Keywords: Smart School, Blended Learning, Jerusalem Governorate Schools