Attitudes of School Teachers toward the Use of ICT in Classrooms

Abstract

Integration of Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) will assist teachers to the global requirement to replace traditional teaching methods with a technology - based teaching and learning tools and facilities. The study examines the use of ICT by school teachers in secondary schools and it intends to understandthe knowledge of ICT and the use of ICT for their information provision. The study examines the use of ICT by school teachers and it intends to understand the knowledge of ICT and the use of ICT for their information provision. The Attitude scale method was adapted and the questionnaire used as the main data collection tool for the study. With regarding the level of confidence of ICT, the results showed that the highest skill or application in the teacher’s responses was utilizing the basics of operating the ICT while managing files was second with high arithmetic mean which implying a higher degree of convergence among teachers at this level. The results further established that there was a positive relationship between use of ICT in teaching and teaching methods by the school teachers.