Investigating science specialties teachers’ training needs in the post-covid era. A comparative study of the factor ‘gender’

This research aims at investigating and recording male and female science disciplines teachers’ (math, science, mechanics and ICT specialties) training needs in a region of Thessaly. It also aimed to detect the effect of the factor gender on the training needs. A number of 252 science disciplines teachers (104 of them being male and 148 female) participated in the research which was conducted with the mixed method approach using a questionnaire and a focus group discussion with eight teachers as research tools. The results of the questionnaire and focus group discussion data analyses revealed that teachers wish to be trained mainly on issues that relate to student psychology, behavioral problems, differentiated instruction, application of ICT in teaching, soft skills, multimodal education or creativity in students’ work. The research results also point to statistically significant results as to the effect of the factor female gender on the training needs.