Teachers Attitudes Towards Learners in The Teaching and Learning of Sciences: A Case Study of Pioneer Location, Uasin-Gishu District, Kenya.

ABSTRACT

The study was carried out to examine the effects of teachers' attitudes towards learners in the teaching and learning of sciences. The study was guided by a number of objectives which were to identify teachers' behaviors or actions that encourages learners to pursue sciences, to establish Teachers' behaviors or actions that discourages learners from studying sciences and to examine effects of the different teacher behaviors/ actions on the teaching and learning process. The study used the case study design. It considered Pioneer Location, Uasin-Gishu District in Eldoret Kenya as its area of study hoping that the findings established in this single division is be a representative of the rest of Kenya. The study had some major findings which encouraged learners to pursue sciences and they included guiding and counseling, giving clear explanation and relating them to day to day learners experience, giving students regular assignments, en couraging student interaction. striking a balance between theoretical learning and practical advance the learners' psychomotor domain in education, the availability and approachability of a teacher matters. The research concluded that through their behavior or actions teachers play a great role in influencing learners to either or not to continue studying science subjects. However there are some acts or behaviors which teachers have to be very cautious about on how and where they practice them, because they were cited by some respondents as encouraging while some other respondents viewed them as discouraging.