Preparation and Readiness of Community Schools for Using ICT in Teaching and Learning

Abstract

ICT is a recent concept in pedagogical practice. ICT in education is the most crucial aspect of research, where ICT education is a continuous assimilation of knowledge, skill, simulated by synchronous and asynchronous learning. Schools are the building blocks for implementing the policy. To launch a new program in any school, schools should be ready and well prepared. Here my research “Preparation and Readiness of Community Schools for Using ICT in Teaching and learning” will helps to investigate whether our community schools are well prepared or not to lunch ICT program for teaching and learning purpose.. This study is carried out for the analysis of community schools for integrating ICT in teaching and learning at Dadeldhura district. This study was limited to 70 teachers from 14 schools two from each rural municipality and municipality of Dadeldhura district. The research design of this study was Qualitative and Quantitative in nature. The primary source of data was used in this study. Primary sources of data were collected from the school observation and questionnaire collected from different teachers of Dadeldhura district. The collected data were analyzed using percentile method and qualitative data were described in narrative way. The study identify that the schools of Dadeldhura were strongly positive towards the integration of ICT in teaching and learning. Most of the teacher have good knowledge towards the use of ICT tolls and schools have good financial condition for integration of ICT so it can be identify that community school of Dadeldhura were ready and well prepared to integrate ICT in teaching and learning.