Abstract

• The main purpose of this study is to investigate the science teachers' difficulties at the middle school level. A quantitative approach, descriptive research design was used in this study. This study was conducted in Yangon Region and three townships were selected randomly. All high schools and middle schools from selected townships were used as the samples. There were (56) participants in this study. A structured questionnaire in four dimensions, and interview questions were used to elicit information from the participants. For the reliability of instrument, a pilot testing with (21) grade six science teachers was conducted. The internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) of attitudes towards teaching science was 0.83 and that of science pedagogical knowledge was 0.87, that of resource adequacy was 0.88 and that of time allocation for science teaching was 0.88 and that of total dimensions is 0.91. In this study, the data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis technique. The research findings reveal that the main difficulties in teaching grade six science are lack of adequacy of learning materials and insufficient allocation of time period.