Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 24, No. 4, 2012

The Extent of Available Necessary Skills to the Co — operative Learning Method and Use Hinders for Teachers of Islamic Education in the Primary Schools in Riyadh according to the Viewpoint of Educative Supervisors, Principals and Teachers  / Khalid Ibrahim Al Matroudi

This study aimed at investigating the extent of mastering the co-operative learning skills by teachers of Islamic education in the primary schools in Riyadh and the obstacles to its use. To achieve that a questionnaire has been designed that consists of 70 items distributed on five areas that are: , skills, obstacles concerning the curriculum items, obstacles concerning the teacher, obstacles concerning the school system, buildings and preparations and obstacles concerning pupils, . This method is applied on a sample of Islamic Education supervisors , 35 supervisors, , schools principals , 171,  and teachers , 345, . The most important results are: the skills of cooperative learning can be found in teachers of Islamic Education at a 'high' level, the grade of the obstacles concerning the curriculum items is 'average', the obstacles concerning: teachers of Islamic Education, the school system, buildings, preparations and pupils,  is 'high'. There are differences among the sample views around , available skills teachers have — obstacles concerning the curriculum items and obstacles concerning teachers, , there are also differences among the samples average that may be due to the different qualification factor in the area of obstacles concerning teachers, there are differences among the sample average that may be due to the age difference in the area of obstacles concerning teachers. The study recommendations : The necessity of decreasing the teaching burden on the teacher's shoulder, decreasing the number of students in the school class, holding training courses continually for training the Islamic Education teachers to use the method of cooperative learning as proper as possible.