Determining the Drama Lesson Plan Preparation Levels of Social Studies Preservice Teachers

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine the level of social studies preservice teachers to prepare a lesson plan by using the drama method. The sample of the research consisted of a total of 240 preservice teachers, 80 for each academic year in the 2017-2018, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years taking the final year last-term Drama course, who were studying in the senior year of social studies teaching at a state university. The research is a descriptive study based on the quantitative research method. The lesson plans prepared by the preservice teachers using the drama method at the end of the drama lesson were evaluated with the "Drama Lesson Plan Rubric (DLPR)" developed by Korkut (2020). When the results of the study are evaluated in general, it is possible to say that the pre-service teachers' levels of preparing drama lesson plans differ by years, and that their level of preparing a drama lesson plan in the 2019-2020 academic year decreased compared to the previous years. It is possible to interpret this situation as a result of the fact that the drama lesson, which is an applied lesson, was given through the simultaneous distance education system due to the pandemic in 2020. Keywords: Social Studies, preservice teacher, drama, lesson plan