English abstract
The current study aims to reveal the difficulties that face the teachers in domain one in teaching the Social Studies course in education (1-4) schools in Muscat Governorate, and knowing the effect of specialization and teaching experience variables. In order to achieve the study aims, the survey method was used by using a questionnaire consisting of (52) items which were divided into seven dimensions of difficulties related to content, teaching methods, teaching aids, student, teacher, technical and administrative, and evaluation. After achieving validity and reliability of the study tool, it was applied to the sample of (114) teachers from Domain one at elementary Schools for grades (1-4) in Muscat Governorate. The findings showed that the degree of difficulties faced by teachers was significantly high with mean (2.85). It also showed no significant differences at (α ≤0.05) with respect to the specialization variable at all difficulties except the content difficulties which showed significant in favor of social studies teachers parameters. There were no statistically significant differences (α≤0.05) with respect to teaching experience variable. The study also recommended the necessity of the holding training programs and workshops to the in-service teachers, and to reformulate the teacher's manual in a way that enable the teachers to teach the subjects in good way.
